Dov Feldstern wrote:
John Levon wrote:
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 02:47:50PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
That's true for the current insets, absolutely *not* for char styles.
It's not acceptable for it to need two keypresses to get from a to b in
'ab' just because a has a different char style.
But why would you want to have two different charstyles in the _same_
word? If you need that then I would say that this is a use case where
you really want to use font attributes and not charstyle.
This applies equally well to punctuation, spacing, whatever. Cursor
movement operations must operate 'visibly' in all circumstances.
This is also a difficult UI problem that will frustrate people I think.
Imagine if I have:
blah blah __blah foo foo__
and I want to reset the third blah to have no style like the others.
It'll be immensely annoying to have to carefully select just up to the
'b' (any further, and you'll have the whole inset).
Look at what I proposed in another message to you: I think that
basically this problem would be easily solved by having one inset per
word:
blah blah __blah__ __foo__ __foo__
Of course, on export to LateX, LyX would be free to merge adjacent
inset into _one_ charstyle.
It's an interesting idea. I need to think some more about it. My main
immediate problem would be that the selection behaviour depends entirely
on whether it has a style. This still doesn't seem intuitive. I
absolutely do want to be able to cut and paste with the 'innards' of
words, regardless of style.
+1
Abdel, even if your suggestion would work (and we haven't discussed how
latex --- that is, LyX when generating latex --- would know how to merge
charstyles.
For LateX the algorithm is very simple: just merge adjacent cells.
We'd just get into the same issues again, I think) --- but
does it make sense? What is it *representing*? Nobody thinks about
applying emphasis as applying it to this word, and then to this word,
and then to the next. I apply it to a chunk of text (which may or may
not include partial words, for all I care).
It's should be easy to merge adjacent inset visually so that they look
like they are the same chunk of text. The user will not notice the
difference I am sure. But that was just an idea, maybe you're right that
some things will feel unnatural but I really have the impression that we
could make this work.
Abdel.
