On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 06:52:48PM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:20:43AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Within text the <space> syndrome won't be as evident because you > > > generally only have one depth and not multiple level like in mathed. > > > > Why do we need to nest insets then ? :-P > > > > JMarc > > Actually I don't think we should (usually). In text, cases where we > want to nest (charstyle) insets ought to be rare, if we have defined > them as sensible semantic units. Over-use of nesting is a sign that > we maybe haven't.
One use case I can think of is a linguist wanting to mark individual parts of a sentence. Certain words can be part of several such entities, so overlapping might make sense there, and also the "artificial splitting workaround" of the pure inset approach might not be really feasible. Andre'
