On Monday 03 November 2003 18:02, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > First we need something to hold the firstname in LyX. f.ex. an inset. > Could also be done by dynamic "font properties". > > We also want the user to be able to set how this firstname should be > rendered, bold, smallcaps, italics, red etc., both on screen and on > typeset material. > > Also we want to have the layout define this, but we also want the user > to be able to define this inside LyX. So we need to be able to store > them in .layout and in .lyx. > (and for docbook we probably want to disallow the user to define them > inside LyX).
Interestingly I think that we should not, even for docbook it is interesting to leave that as an open possibility. That will allow us to play with the role attribute. > This is a feature I (and I know Jose...) have been dreaming of for a > long, long period. For a long time and I think that we have now a chance to do it right. I would like that this patch, or some evolution of it to be committed. I think that sometimes our desire to get it perfect (as you honestly recognize) is in our way to features we want. > So if we could do this, without adding hacks to the core, and with out > having a horrendously bad (G)UI, I'll go for almost any solution. Agreed. -- José Abílio LyX and docbook, a perfect match. :-)
