Martin Vermeer wrote:
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 08:45:07PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
Do you really want to force users to
- dissolve everything,
No, the user is doing this to himself. He made an _error_. The canonical
way to correct an error is to 1) undo it, 2) do it again, this time
right. The circumstance that font attributes allow you to shortcut this
doesn't _entitle_ you to the same shortcut in an entirely different
paradigmatic context.
Most people learn quickly from their errors. This will be a rare case.
Martin, I don't agree with you about this being an error on the part of
the user. Maybe you always know exactly what you're planning to type and
how you're planning to typeset it and all, but I certainly don't. I like
to put things on the screen, and then move it around, and copy from here
and past there, and emphasize this and then unemphasize part and then
reemphasize something else... That's why I use a computer, otherwise a
typewriter (well, if it had a few fonts ;) ) would be enough.
In general, I think that the "charstyle-as-inset-people" ;) are focusing
too much on what the final document looks like, and not enough on the
writing process. But remember --- once the document is in its final
form, there's no need for LyX anymore. LyX is about getting to that
final form, and for that you want the writing/editing process to be as
simple and intuitive as possible. And the way I think about styles, at
least, is "finger painting" (at the logical, semantic level).
- select "this"
- hit "foo"
- select "text"
- hit "foo"
Two selection and insertion operations, just like your proposed method.
to get to this result?
Jürgen
- Martin
