On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 09:38:56AM +0200, Juergen Vigna wrote:
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Let's look at the two reason why you added the language_inherit
1) Consistency with other font properties
2) Previously, a special code was needed to set the language when creating
an empty insettext. So the change simplifies the code
I don't care about argument one. If you want a cleaner code than move the
language (and also the emph field) out of LyXfont.
As for the second argument, I don't think that language_inherit simplifies
the code. Here is why:
First, I don't know how you want to interpret language_inherit.
Option a: If a text has language_inherit language then its language is the
document language.
Option b: If a text in insettext has language_inherit language, then its
language is according to the language in the position of the inset in
the paragraph above.
If you use option-a, then you the use of language_inherit doesn't solve the
problem of item 2 above: suppose that you want to create a tabular in a
French paragraph in an English document. Then, when you enter an empty cell,
you need to set the language to French!
Now, suppose that you use option-b.
The problem now is that you have a much more complicated copy&paste code
(actually, this happen also with option-a).
Suppose that I have a tabular (in French) in a French paragraph in an
English document. The text in the tabular has language_inherit language.
Now if you copy some text from a cell, and paste it into an English
paragraph, you need to change the language of the copied text to French!
So the language_inherit saves you ~3 lines in the code, but adds >10 lines
to the code of copy&paste. This doesn't really simplifies the code!
