On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 10:24:24PM +0200, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> John Levon wrote:
>
> >Any toolbar changes need to be against current 1.4cvs (which includes,
> >for example, both depth-decrement and depth-increment).
>
> Of course against 1.4CVS, all proposals are for LyX 1.4 or 1.5.
> I as stupid Win-user haven't ever seen LyX 1.4. So please be indulgent
> with me if I propose stuff that is already in LyX 1.4.
>
> >Work has started on this in 1.4cvs (much, much more work to do).
> >Explicit modification of italic etc. is eventually going to go away
> >altogether in favour of styles.
>
> I don't undertand this. What is a style and what is its advantage?
> At the moment LyX uses
> \newcommand{\noun}[1]{\textsc{#1}}
> for the "Noun style". \textsc switches to the small caps font shape,
> that is part of the font family.
> \textit is the analogon to \textsc for italic. So why should we drop
> support for italic?
>
> regards UweHe means character styles. Have a look at the layout files for 1.4.0cvs. These are implemented as insets, but currently not (really) used except on the DocBook side. We should have logical styles like Noun and Emphasized, instead of character attributes. They will not be physically dropped, but the UI will guide the user to use logical styles. At least that's how I remember what came out of the discussion back then. - Martin
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