On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 02:28:26PM +0000, John Levon wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:46:35AM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:53:26AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
> > > At least latex lets me change from "\emph{This is marked}" to
> > > "\emph{This} is \emph{marked}" without retyping any text. :-)
> >
> > This is implementable with 'boxes in boxes', too.
>
> The question isn't whether it's implementable, it's whether it's natural
> UI to present to the user. And it's not, regardless of what the
> implementation looks like.
>
> Otherwise Helge would have written \emph{This \nonemph{is} marked}
That is not how I think about editing or styles.
If I "unapply" some style in the middle, then I split the
styled part, I do not add a layer of non-style.
In the latex case, I inserted "}" and "\emph{", even if such
actions looks unbalanced and iffy to a highly organized mind. :-)
If this sort of thing won't be possible, how will the alternative
way be to edit? How will a user remove wrong markup, for
this will be necessary at times.
What do you consider the natural UI?
Delete & rewrite the text? (too much work)
Use some way of undo a whole piece of markup, then
re-mark pieces if necessary?
Something else?
Helge Hafting
