On Thursday 16 August 2007 14:49:57 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > The real problem you mentioned may be that insets do not provide as > > many display schemes as needed. New schemes would be useful for > > other purposes as well, e.g. for charstyles; however that's not a > > reason for putting charstyles properties into a font. > > charstyles have been introduced because of some shortcomings of our font > system, in particular the fact that fonts did not nest correctly. They > feel however as an afterthought, and my belief is that we have not > found yet how to integrate them fully.
Martin will be surprised to hear that. :-) Character styles imply content based typesetting while font properties imply formating. Maybe then we should ditch layout files and let our users configure the paragraph properties on a per paragraph basis. :-) -- José Abílio
