On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 04:06:33PM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote:
> No. They should be implemented in their own right for the use
> described in Steve Litt's article. No need to complicate the issue by
> bringing in conditional output, even if you could do that (you would
> have to provide an easy UI too, tricks won't do :-).
So you think _three ways_ of 'putting tags on text' is the way to go?
[change stuff, char styles and branches]
> What I am thinking to do (if I can find the time away from holiday :-)
> is this:
>
> 1) A user interface (in document->extra) to define a "branch list",
> which contains pairs of branch names (English, Finnish, ...) and
> "representation colours" (red, green, magenta, ...). The branch names
> are editable and represent the semantics (Michael's proposal). The
> representation colours are fixed, eight of them (could be generalized
> later.) In my devel code I define the branch list as a vector of pairs
> in BufferParams in bufferparams.[Ch]. (Good idea?)
>
> The branch table must be carried in the .lyx format.
>
> 2) Also in document->extra, you can choose the "active branch", i.e.
> the one that will be currently output to LaTeX. Choose it by name,
> i.e. "English". (Currently choice by colour.)
>
> The active branch may be carried in the .lyx format, although I don't
> see why it should. (We don't store current cursor position etc.
> either.)
>
> 3) In the character attributes dialog ("Text style" nowadays?) you can
> "paint" a piece of text with a "branch" attribute. Currently the
> branches are listed by colour; ideally they should be listed by branch
> name. I'm sorry, but right now I don't see how to do that in an easy
> way. The colour list is static, making it dynamic would necessitate
> its rebuilding every time the branch list changes (is that a problem?)
>
> 4) Currently the status line displays the under-cursor branch as
> "ifmagenta" etc. Should be "ifEnglish" etc. Same remark as under 3).
I think the implementation should go on top of character styles.
Which, of course, somehow mean we have to get char style working...
[I don't really care much for the dialog or the UI part, but I do care for
the innards. And somehow I've not yet seen a compelling reason why
'branches' and 'char style' should differ implementation-wise]
Andre'
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