On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 00:54, John Levon wrote: > Personally I believe the UI benefit in the paragraph not going away when > you're about to type into vs. the cost of allowing the user to leave an > empty paragraph or two around is worth it. I guess you disagree.
I want the paragraph to stay around when I'm about to type into it. I also want empty paragraphs to be culled in real-time, I can't stand having more than one way to draw the same data, since it encourages me to go on a cleaning spree to make it neat and tidy. Just like the way you sometimes go cleaning up C code to conform to your coding style, when it makes no difference to the compiler. I understand the concept of WYSIWYM but it's an aspect of human psychology to go on cleaning sprees to make things look right. It's like a mild compulsion I guess, like cleaning up TeX output of LyX so it looks nice even though it changes nothing but looks better. Plus there's the possibility of giving a LyX document to somebody else, in which case the blank paragraphs *do* have an effect, they look bad. So having only one way to display the data is important. Blank paragraphs which don't really exist are a Bad Thing IMHO, if they aren't transient. > john Have fun, Darren
