On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 10:30:47PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > There's also the question how all of this gets written to a LyX file. > Especially once we're doing XML, it'll be essential that everything be > properly nested (unless each character is supposed to be written with > all of its associated formatting information, which is insane). Insets > are a natural correlate to that, because they nest. This does NOT mean > that they have to appear to the user as insets, only that the underlying > data structure nests properly.
However, insets imply all sorts of things about cursor movement and mouse placement. Unless things in this area got *massively* cleaned up since I last looked at the code, getting correct cursor movement with char-ranges-as-insets will not be easy. regards john
