On Friday 28 November 2003 12:41, Helge Hafting wrote:
> > ...and yes, I think (agree?) that character attributes
> > (size/bold/italic/...) ought to die off... but we cannot just remove
> > them, as they are in old docs. Discourage their use ("finger
> > painting") together with providing logical character (and paragraph)
> > styles to make them unnecessary.
>
> Old docs will need a converter anyway, the converter may notice
> that the user used "bold" or "underline" and create such a style
> in the converted document. So the old style system can be removed
> without breaking compatibility. Of course the converter can't
> guess the true menaing of the markup and will resort to
> style names like "underlined-for-some-reason" . . .
I agree with Helge, lyx2lyx should convert the old documents, even if it is
for "underlined-for-some-reason" logical char style.
Legacy documents should not be the problem...
> Helge Hafting
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José Abílio
