On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 02:34:20PM -0700, James Frye wrote: > On Mon, 26 May 2003, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > Same here. The default spacing follow good type setting style. Exposing > > them to the casual user is likely to produce bad typesetting, so at least > > my interest in making that accessible is limited. > > I'd say instead that the default spacing &c follows rules laid down by > certain academic journals and suchlike. That does not necessarily equate > to "good". Just for instance, the default "new paragraph" action is, > IIRC, to indent but not to add space. Now if your journal wants that, > fine, but for my own use I want no indent and a blank line between > paragraphs.
So do I, probably because it's not too uncommon in German typesetting. For such things there are standard solutions and som of them are even supported by LyX, in this case Layout->Document->Skip. > Likewise I don't want a default 10 point typeface with 1.5 > inch margins on each side, I want a title that's left-justified rather > than centered, and so on through many choices. The point is: You can do that, but it hurts a bit. So if you really want it and know what you do you can do it. But you don't do it accidentally. > Of course there are some things that are indeed bad typesetting, I would > defy anyone to give a logical reason why any of the options I'd like to > set are bad in any objective sense, rather than just a matter of personal > preference. Proof by Authority ;-) > What I would like is some sort of style editor that would let me easily > change such things. A style editor for logical markup would be nice indeed.... In fact, I think you guys have a valid point. And if I am taking a somewhat stonger stance than absolutely needed this is because I don't like the reasoning 'You have to make such and such easy because it is easy in Word'. It does not necessarily mean, that 'such' must not be easy.... Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson or B. Franklin or both...)
