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

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