On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 01:35:32PM +0100, John Levon wrote:
> Granted. Though I can't see I've had too many problems without this.
>
> > - arbitrary nesting of font changes, including the possibility
> > of differentating \fontfoo{\fontbar{...}} from \fontbar{\fontfoo...}
>
> And what does this mean to the USER ?
That with nested size changes the innermost takes priority?
> > - simple handling (S&R could come for free e.g.)
>
> This has nothing to do with the user, it is an (irrelevant to this
> discussion) implementation detail.
It is not a _detail_. This is about being able to implement something
or not at all.
And S&R is a mess, works only on text (sometimes...) not on structures
etc, is unmaintainable etc whereas it could be a matter of 10 lines for
started (convert everything to a string and do a regexp replace on it)
Currently only the S&R-interface provided by LyX that deserves that name
is "Open the .lyx in a text editor, do your work, read back". And on that
base we are discussing UI issues?
> > As at least two people are using it for regular work and are happy with it.
> > So there are 'ifs and buts'.
>
> Huh ? We don't have font insets outside mathed. How are they using it ?
Inside math. [Yes, we could stick almost everything inside nowadays]
Andre'
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