Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
I'd prefer to have a charstyle combo (similar to the paragraph style combo) in
the long term that displays the current charstyle (only the one the cursor is
in, though).
That'd be nice. And with charstyles being the preferred way,
it should definitely be right there in the user interface.
I was thinking about the bottom of the screen where it says
things like "Font:Standard..." one might add a list of
active styles at the end. There will usually not be that many.
* Have some way of defining "icon labels" so that the label can be
very small and unobtrusive, and still identify the styled text.
I don't understand.
I tried your example with the style named "Identifier". I applied
it to the word "Test", and got something like:
See a Test of charstyles
-Identifier-
The style label take up too much space. Not only vertically, but
also horizontally. Now, if I could make a teststyles.inc like this:
Format 2
CharStyle Identifier
LatexType Command
LatexName identif
LabelType png
LabelIcon smiley.png
Preamble
\newcommand\identif[1]{\small\texttt{#1}}
EndPreamble
End
With this, I'd get rid of that long text "Identifier", and get a
nice little png image instead as the label. png images can be
quite small while still being distinct. Perhaps only 5 pixels high
and no wider than an "m". With this, the linespacing won't be
so bad, and neither will the line show with excessive whitespace
when the marked word is shorter than the label.
Just an idea, I don't know how hard it is to stick a .png there.
Maybe not that hard if you're going to add preview
capability anyway?
Helge Hafting
