On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:09:12 +0200 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Yes, I understand that. Two different things. > > I know you do. > > > And I would maintain that this is a _perceived_ non-readiness mostly -- to > > people that are 'indoctrinated' by the font attribute way of doing things. > > The example of colors in mathed is a good one. One should not have to > dissolve the color inset and then insert a new one to change color. But we don't even have a GUI for this (do we?) That would be a higher priority at this point. > I'd be disappointed if this is all we can do with it. As it is the > font-as-inset is functional, logical, but not very exciting. Looks > like it has been designed by the french bureaucracy ;) > > What I write above is not about the charstyles (which are great), but > the look-and-feel of the underlying technology. Apple would not have > done it like that. I'm sure there is many things we could improve. Toggle-same-type would certainly be an idea. As would a dialogue for changing type (been thinking about that). But we should not try to shoehorn an inappropriate paradigm. > JMarc - Martin
