On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 04:36:26PM +0000, John Levon spake thusly: > > Um, no. I, naturally, have heavily used physical character styles in the > absence of LCS. The thing with Noun is just a testing thing because it's > currently implemented both ways in CVS lyx. I am sure you must be aware > of this and are just being facetious for some reason.
One thing not to forget here is the following question: how long typically, or even maximally, are the pieces of text you would paint "Noun" -- or any other logical charstyle for that matter? I think typically they are small, and only exceptionally more than one, two, three words. If they become whole paragraphs, that would point to the need to create a paragraph style for that. Forgive me for pointing out that we are living in a "finger painting matrix" where people expect to be able to, and routinely practice, painting large areas of text in whatever visual style they find suitable, rather than building the appearance upon suitably (semantically) defined logical styles, be they paragraph of character styles. That's the way to create documents that are output-able but don't self-document their structure. Even LaTeX has a bit of this implicit philosophy. Shouldn't we set a better example? User interface is important (very!), but I suspect this is as much or more a paradigm issue as a UI issue. André may be a bit absolute on this, but I do see his point. Cheers, Martin
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