Darren Freeman wrote:
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 11:17 -0400, Richard Heck wrote:
I think this is a matter of getting used to how LyX works. It's true
that people coming from other programs will expect the behavior you
expected, but that's not the only way it can sensibly work. We can
discuss here which way it should work. I can tell what your vote is. ;-)
It's not sensible so it should be changed. :)
Wrong - this really depends on what you're used to. I think
the behaviour you describes is the one that isn't sensible - and
should be changed in all programs implementing it. :-) Just
my opinion though.
Having the bold button bold everything, or remove bold when every
last bit is bold already is seems complicated - it'd take some time
for the beginner to figure that out. Now it is a simple toggle, and
long-time
lyx users are used to that.
What is definitely a problem is that the Text Styles dialog, which is
where I was going to send you for help on this, doesn't work as it
should. I've filed a bug report about that:
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3680.
I've added a comment.
I was just wondering how a new user would figure out that ctrl-E is for
italics. I'm not sure that the original way I found that out is still
ctrl+e isn't for italics. It is for emphasis. Emphasis is usually
italics, but not necessarily. If the document font is italic, then
emphasis is roman. If the document class specifies a different
kind of emphasis, then that will be used instead.
You can set italics explicit in the text style dialog, if you somehow
need italic regardless of what kind of emphasis the document style
specifies. This is unusual though - almost all use of italics really
is emphasis.
present, except for maybe in the docs. It should be a menu item if it's
going to have a shortcut.
Also this dialogue has a "cancel" button which doesn't cancel, it
closes.
Perhaps it should be relabeled "close" then.
Helge Hafting
