Bo Peng wrote:
Well, as I understand it, LyX is supposed to be a "semantic" text processor. That's certainly where John's comment was coming from, and mine. But people are not accustomed to thinking about writing that way, in large part because standard word processors don't encourage it. So, the thought is, that we should encourage it, and not be encouraging non-semantic markup, even though of course LaTeX permits it, and it is useful in some cases. But one could argue that \textbf{} should rarely be used outside a definition.But before text style becomes useful, shouldnot we put bold buttons/menu items back? It is frustrating for new users that this *simple* operation is hidden in 'Edit->Text Style->Customized->Series->Bold->OK".
I wouldn't object. rh
