Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-07 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Martin Vermeer wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 06:58:44PM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 03:56:59PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Martin Vermeer wrote: The attached tries to do this. The lower corners will be drawn also when the cursor is just in front or behind the

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-07 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Martin Vermeer wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 06:58:44PM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 03:56:59PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Martin Vermeer wrote: The attached tries to do this. The lower corners will be drawn also when the cursor is just in front or behind the

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-07 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 09:48:35AM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Martin Vermeer wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 06:58:44PM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 03:56:59PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Martin Vermeer wrote: ... Hum just to be sure, did you try to

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-07 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Martin Vermeer wrote: On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 09:48:35AM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Martin Vermeer wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 06:58:44PM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 03:56:59PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Martin Vermeer wrote:

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-07 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Martin Vermeer wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 06:58:44PM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 03:56:59PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Martin Vermeer wrote: The attached tries to do this. The lower corners will be drawn also when the cursor is just in front or behind the

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-07 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Martin Vermeer wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 06:58:44PM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 03:56:59PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Martin Vermeer wrote: The attached tries to do this. The lower corners will be drawn also when the cursor is just in front or behind the

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-07 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 09:48:35AM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Martin Vermeer wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 06:58:44PM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: > >> On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 03:56:59PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > >>> Martin Vermeer wrote: ... > Hum just to be sure, did

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-07 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Martin Vermeer wrote: On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 09:48:35AM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Martin Vermeer wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 06:58:44PM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 03:56:59PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Martin Vermeer wrote:

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-06 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:44:48PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: Martin Vermeer wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:42:35AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: Richard Heck wrote: ... 1. There should be an Invisible geometry for charstyle insets, in which they simply draw the text and

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-06 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Martin Vermeer wrote: The attached tries to do this. The lower corners will be drawn also when the cursor is just in front or behind the inset. Unfortunately this doesn't work right, because of the way LyX renders stuff: if you move the cursor left or right, nothing will get re-rendered. When

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-06 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 03:56:59PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Martin Vermeer wrote: The attached tries to do this. The lower corners will be drawn also when the cursor is just in front or behind the inset. Unfortunately this doesn't work right, because of the way LyX renders

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-06 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 06:58:44PM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 03:56:59PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Martin Vermeer wrote: The attached tries to do this. The lower corners will be drawn also when the cursor is just in front or behind the inset.

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-06 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 06:58:44PM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 03:56:59PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Martin Vermeer wrote: The attached tries to do this. The lower corners will be drawn also when the cursor is just in front or behind the inset.

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-06 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:44:48PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > Martin Vermeer wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:42:35AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > > > >> Richard Heck wrote: ... > >>> 1. There should be an "Invisible" geometry for charstyle insets, in which > >>> they simply

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-06 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Martin Vermeer wrote: The attached tries to do this. The lower corners will be drawn also when the cursor is just in front or behind the inset. Unfortunately this doesn't work right, because of the way LyX renders stuff: if you move the cursor left or right, nothing will get re-rendered. When

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-06 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 03:56:59PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Martin Vermeer wrote: > > > The attached tries to do this. The lower corners will be drawn > > also when the cursor is just in front or behind the inset. > > Unfortunately this doesn't work right, because of the > > way LyX

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-06 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 06:58:44PM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 03:56:59PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > Martin Vermeer wrote: > > > > > The attached tries to do this. The lower corners will be drawn > > > also when the cursor is just in front or behind the

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-06 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 06:58:44PM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 03:56:59PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > Martin Vermeer wrote: > > > > > The attached tries to do this. The lower corners will be drawn > > > also when the cursor is just in front or behind the inset.

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 01:09:44AM +0100, John Levon wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 11:22:01PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: The only thing I could ask for here, is to see the borders also when the cursor is right in front of the inset, because the delete key will delete the entire

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 08:12:28AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: The only thing I could ask for here, is to see the borders also when the cursor is right in front of the inset, because the delete key will delete the entire inset if used at that point. That is obvious if the

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 06:52:41AM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 11:22:01PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 12:09:11AM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: Almost! A text with many charstyles is now much easier to read. The only thing I could ask

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 07:15:39AM +0100, John Levon wrote: Not if the chunk is larger than you'd might expect. You're tying yourself up in knots precisely because you won't do the right thing: delete the character in front of the cursor. No. I usually want to delete entities when there are

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 07:15:39AM +0100, John Levon wrote: Not if the chunk is larger than you'd might expect. You're tying yourself up in knots precisely because you won't do the right thing: delete the character in front of the cursor. No. I usually want to delete

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread Helge Hafting
Martin Vermeer wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:44:48PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: Martin Vermeer wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:42:35AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: [...] How about having insets normally invisible, but having the boundaries appear in some way whenever

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yep. I truly think we will never converge to an agreement, our views are fundamentally different and there is nothing we can do. So what about making this kind of things configurable? This would be the worst solution. JMarc

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread Dov Feldstern
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 06:52:41AM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 11:22:01PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 12:09:11AM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: Almost! A text with many charstyles is now much easier to read. The only thing I

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 05:32:42PM +0100, John Levon wrote: I think John understand our point of view very well but he's playing the devil's advocate. Not at all. I genuinely don't understand how anybody could think that editing equations is like editing prose. (I'd love to be able to

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 12:34:33PM +0200, Dov Feldstern wrote: I actually agree with Andre' here, this would be good behavior for *true* insets IMO. Agreed, I think it's a nice solution to the delete a footnote problem, with perhaps the change that it only applies if the inset is not

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 09:02:03AM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I think John understand our point of view very well but he's playing the devil's advocate. Not at all. I genuinely don't understand how anybody could think that editing equations is like editing prose. regards, john

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
John Levon wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 05:32:42PM +0100, John Levon wrote: I think John understand our point of view very well but he's playing the devil's advocate. Not at all. I genuinely don't understand how anybody could think that editing equations is like editing prose. Well, I am

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 07:00:41PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Not at all. I genuinely don't understand how anybody could think that editing equations is like editing prose. Well, I am a scientist and I often have the need to apply the same style to some specific words. These words are

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 05:32:42PM +0100, John Levon wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 09:02:03AM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I think John understand our point of view very well but he's playing the devil's advocate. Not at all. I genuinely don't understand how anybody could think that

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 08:59:45PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: I think John understand our point of view very well but he's playing the devil's advocate. Not at all. I genuinely don't understand how anybody could think that editing equations is like editing prose. You are not a

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 01:09:44AM +0100, John Levon wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 11:22:01PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > > > The only thing I could ask for here, is to see the borders also when > > > > the cursor is right in front of the inset, because the "delete" key > > > > will

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 08:12:28AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > > > The only thing I could ask for here, is to see the borders also when > > > > > the cursor is right in front of the inset, because the "delete" key > > > > > will delete the entire inset if used at that point. That is obvious

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 06:52:41AM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 11:22:01PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 12:09:11AM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: > > > > Almost! A text with many charstyles is now much easier to read. > > > > > > > > The only

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 07:15:39AM +0100, John Levon wrote: > > Not if the chunk is larger than you'd might expect. > > You're tying yourself up in knots precisely because you won't do the > right thing: delete the character in front of the cursor. No. I usually want to delete entities when

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 07:15:39AM +0100, John Levon wrote: Not if the chunk is larger than you'd might expect. You're tying yourself up in knots precisely because you won't do the right thing: delete the character in front of the cursor. No. I usually want to delete

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread Helge Hafting
Martin Vermeer wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:44:48PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: Martin Vermeer wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:42:35AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: [...] How about having insets normally invisible, but having the boundaries appear in some way whenever

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yep. I truly think we will never converge to an agreement, our views > are fundamentally different and there is nothing we can do. So what > about making this kind of things configurable? This would be the worst solution. JMarc

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread Dov Feldstern
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 06:52:41AM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 11:22:01PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 12:09:11AM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: Almost! A text with many charstyles is now much easier to read. The only thing I

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 05:32:42PM +0100, John Levon wrote: > > I think John understand our point of view very well but he's playing the > > devil's advocate. > > Not at all. I genuinely don't understand how anybody could think that > editing equations is like editing prose. (I'd love to be

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 12:34:33PM +0200, Dov Feldstern wrote: > I actually agree with Andre' here, this would be good behavior for > *true* insets IMO. Agreed, I think it's a nice solution to the "delete a footnote" problem, with perhaps the change that it only applies if the inset is not

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 09:02:03AM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > I think John understand our point of view very well but he's playing the > devil's advocate. Not at all. I genuinely don't understand how anybody could think that editing equations is like editing prose. regards, john

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
John Levon wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 05:32:42PM +0100, John Levon wrote: I think John understand our point of view very well but he's playing the devil's advocate. Not at all. I genuinely don't understand how anybody could think that editing equations is like editing prose. Well, I am

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 07:00:41PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > >>Not at all. I genuinely don't understand how anybody could think that > >>editing equations is like editing prose. > > Well, I am a scientist and I often have the need to apply the same style > to some specific words. These

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 05:32:42PM +0100, John Levon wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 09:02:03AM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > > I think John understand our point of view very well but he's playing the > > devil's advocate. > > Not at all. I genuinely don't understand how anybody could

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-05 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 08:59:45PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > I think John understand our point of view very well but he's playing the > > > devil's advocate. > > > > Not at all. I genuinely don't understand how anybody could think that > > editing equations is like editing prose. > >

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW Word's side panel is not too bad as a model. The office 2007 UI blog posts I referred to earlier explain how the proliferation of side panels in word meant that they just scrapped everything and built a new UI. JMarc

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-04 Thread Helge Hafting
Richard Heck wrote: Without meaning to prejudge the question whether CharStyles should be insets, here's my list of things that ought to be done if they are going to stay that way. They are addressed specifically to what Abdel was calling the look and feel aspect of charstyles, which are in

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-04 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:42:35AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: Richard Heck wrote: Without meaning to prejudge the question whether CharStyles should be insets, here's my list of things that ought to be done if they are going to stay that way. They are addressed specifically to what Abdel

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-04 Thread Helge Hafting
Martin Vermeer wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:42:35AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: Richard Heck wrote: Without meaning to prejudge the question whether CharStyles should be insets, here's my list of things that ought to be done if they are going to stay that way. They are addressed

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-04 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:44:48PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: Martin Vermeer wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:42:35AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: Richard Heck wrote: Without meaning to prejudge the question whether CharStyles should be insets, here's my list of things that ought

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-04 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 12:09:11AM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: Almost! A text with many charstyles is now much easier to read. The only thing I could ask for here, is to see the borders also when the cursor is right in front of the inset, because the delete key will delete the entire

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-04 Thread Richard Heck
Helge Hafting wrote: The only thing I could ask for here, is to see the borders also when the cursor is right in front of the inset, because the delete key will delete the entire inset if used at that point. That is obvious if the frame is there, not so if it isn't. I'd prefer if it didn't do

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-04 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 11:22:01PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: The only thing I could ask for here, is to see the borders also when the cursor is right in front of the inset, because the delete key will delete the entire inset if used at that point. That is obvious if the frame is

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-04 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:44:48PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: Martin Vermeer wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:42:35AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: Richard Heck wrote: Without meaning to prejudge the question whether CharStyles should be insets, here's my list of things that ought

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-04 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 11:22:01PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 12:09:11AM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: Almost! A text with many charstyles is now much easier to read. The only thing I could ask for here, is to see the borders also when the cursor is right in

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW Word's side panel is not too bad as a model. The office 2007 UI blog posts I referred to earlier explain how the proliferation of side panels in word meant that they just scrapped everything and built a new UI. JMarc

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-04 Thread Helge Hafting
Richard Heck wrote: Without meaning to prejudge the question whether CharStyles should be insets, here's my list of things that ought to be done if they are going to stay that way. They are addressed specifically to what Abdel was calling the "look and feel" aspect of charstyles, which are

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-04 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:42:35AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > Richard Heck wrote: > > > >Without meaning to prejudge the question whether CharStyles should be > >insets, here's my list of things that ought to be done if they are > >going to stay that way. They are addressed specifically to

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-04 Thread Helge Hafting
Martin Vermeer wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:42:35AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: Richard Heck wrote: Without meaning to prejudge the question whether CharStyles should be insets, here's my list of things that ought to be done if they are going to stay that way. They are addressed

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-04 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:44:48PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > Martin Vermeer wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:42:35AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > > > >>Richard Heck wrote: > >> > >>>Without meaning to prejudge the question whether CharStyles should be > >>>insets, here's my list of

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-04 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 12:09:11AM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: > > Almost! A text with many charstyles is now much easier to read. > > > > The only thing I could ask for here, is to see the borders also when > > the cursor is right in front of the inset, because the "delete" key > > will delete

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-04 Thread Richard Heck
Helge Hafting wrote: The only thing I could ask for here, is to see the borders also when the cursor is right in front of the inset, because the "delete" key will delete the entire inset if used at that point. That is obvious if the frame is there, not so if it isn't. I'd prefer if it didn't do

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-04 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 11:22:01PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > The only thing I could ask for here, is to see the borders also when > > > the cursor is right in front of the inset, because the "delete" key > > > will delete the entire inset if used at that point. That is obvious if > > >

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-04 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:44:48PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > Martin Vermeer wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:42:35AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > > > >>Richard Heck wrote: > >> > >>>Without meaning to prejudge the question whether CharStyles should be > >>>insets, here's my list of

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-04 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 11:22:01PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 12:09:11AM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: > > > Almost! A text with many charstyles is now much easier to read. > > > > > > The only thing I could ask for here, is to see the borders also when > > > the cursor

CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Richard Heck
Without meaning to prejudge the question whether CharStyles should be insets, here's my list of things that ought to be done if they are going to stay that way. They are addressed specifically to what Abdel was calling the look and feel aspect of charstyles, which are in principle

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:15:52PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: 4. Inset dissolving should be more intuitive. There should be a menu item Remove charstyle---it doesn't have to be called that---that dissolves the current (innermost) inset. Maybe there should also be a I believe you can do

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
John Levon wrote: 4. Inset dissolving should be more intuitive. There should be a menu item Remove charstyle---it doesn't have to be called that---that dissolves the current (innermost) inset. Maybe there should also be a I believe you can do that simply by setting the style combo box back

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Richard Heck
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: John Levon wrote: 4. Inset dissolving should be more intuitive. There should be a menu item Remove charstyle---it doesn't have to be called that---that dissolves the current (innermost) inset. Maybe there should also be a I believe you can do that simply

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Richard Heck wrote: 5. Charstyle drawing shouldn't mess up line breaking the way it does now. The insets get drawn as if they are single characters, so you end up with: This issome text. This issome text.

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Richard Heck wrote: Yes, none would work fine if we had such a combo box (which we don't yet). But I'd also like to have change to ... rather than having to dissolve and re-apply. This is harder to do with a combo box, since you may haven't wanted to insert a new inset within the existing

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:37:57PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: John Levon wrote: 4. Inset dissolving should be more intuitive. There should be a menu item Remove charstyle---it doesn't have to be called that---that dissolves the current (innermost) inset. Maybe

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Martin Vermeer wrote: I think the combo box is a great idea. None should indeed just dissolve the current inset (and thus not exist in top level text). We have currently an LFUN_INSET_DISSOLVE ... do we need a separate one for charstyles only? In the top level text (i.e. if the cursor is not

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: I see. However, we might think about a panel solution (as in OOs, Word 2003 and InDesign), where you could have a button change to. At least the former two have a combox and a panel (for the more complex tasks), so it's not necessarily redundant to have both. I

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 07:45:32PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Martin Vermeer wrote: I think the combo box is a great idea. None should indeed just dissolve the current inset (and thus not exist in top level text). We have currently an LFUN_INSET_DISSOLVE ... do we need a separate

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Martin Vermeer wrote: But it wouldn't do anything? No. If you have none and select none, you still have none in the end ;-) (it's just like selecting Standard [paragraph] when you are in Standard already) Jürgen

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I stand corrected: they don't. Well Word 2002 (XP) has a side panel in Format-Font Yes, but no combo. Jürgen BTW Word's side panel is not too bad as a model.

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I stand corrected: they don't. Well Word 2002 (XP) has a side panel in Format-Font Hum, correction, that is Format-Styles and Formatting. Yes, but no combo. I have both here. Abdel.

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: I see. However, we might think about a panel solution (as in OOs, Word 2003 and InDesign), where you could have a button change to. At least the former two have a combox and a panel (for the more complex tasks), so it's not necessarily

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I have both here. For char styles? Interesting. Jürgen

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I have both here. For char styles? For what MS calls styles yes but are just handy shortcuts to set predefined font attributes. Abdel.

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 08:35:44PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Martin Vermeer wrote: But it wouldn't do anything? No. If you have none and select none, you still have none in the end ;-) (it's just like selecting Standard [paragraph] when you are in Standard already) Jürgen

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Martin Vermeer wrote: But then it would be logically consistent to have the combo box default to replace when inside a charstyle. I'm not sure. Clicking the same charstyle type as the one you're in then also becomes a no-op. This should be so, yes. Jürgen

CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Richard Heck
Without meaning to prejudge the question whether CharStyles should be insets, here's my list of things that ought to be done if they are going to stay that way. They are addressed specifically to what Abdel was calling the "look and feel" aspect of charstyles, which are in principle

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:15:52PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > 4. Inset dissolving should be more intuitive. There should be a menu > item "Remove charstyle"---it doesn't have to be called that---that > dissolves the current (innermost) inset. Maybe there should also be a I believe you can

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
John Levon wrote: >> 4. Inset dissolving should be more intuitive. There should be a menu >> item "Remove charstyle"---it doesn't have to be called that---that >> dissolves the current (innermost) inset. Maybe there should also be a > > I believe you can do that simply by setting the style combo

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Richard Heck
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: John Levon wrote: 4. Inset dissolving should be more intuitive. There should be a menu item "Remove charstyle"---it doesn't have to be called that---that dissolves the current (innermost) inset. Maybe there should also be a I believe you can do that simply

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Richard Heck wrote: > 5. Charstyle drawing shouldn't mess up line breaking the way it does > now. The insets get drawn as if they are single characters, so you end > up with: > This issome > text. This issome > text. >

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Richard Heck wrote: > Yes, "none" would work fine if we had such a combo box (which we don't > yet). But I'd also like to have "change to ..." rather than having to > dissolve and re-apply. This is harder to do with a combo box, since you > may haven't wanted to insert a new inset within the

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:37:57PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > >John Levon wrote: > > > >>>4. Inset dissolving should be more intuitive. There should be a menu > >>>item "Remove charstyle"---it doesn't have to be called that---that > >>>dissolves the current

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Martin Vermeer wrote: > I think the combo box is a great idea. "None" should indeed just > dissolve the current inset (and thus not exist in top level text). > We have currently an LFUN_INSET_DISSOLVE ... do we need a separate > one for charstyles only? In the top level text (i.e. if the cursor

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > I see. However, we might think about a panel solution (as in OOs, Word > 2003 and InDesign), where you could have a button "change to". At least > the former two have a combox and a panel (for the more complex tasks), so > it's not necessarily redundant to have both.

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 07:45:32PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Martin Vermeer wrote: > > > I think the combo box is a great idea. "None" should indeed just > > dissolve the current inset (and thus not exist in top level text). > > We have currently an LFUN_INSET_DISSOLVE ... do we need a

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Martin Vermeer wrote: > But it wouldn't do anything? No. If you have none and select none, you still have none in the end ;-) (it's just like selecting Standard [paragraph] when you are in Standard already) Jürgen

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: >> I stand corrected: they don't. > > Well Word 2002 (XP) has a side panel in Format->Font Yes, but no combo. Jürgen BTW Word's side panel is not too bad as a model.

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I stand corrected: they don't. Well Word 2002 (XP) has a side panel in Format->Font Hum, correction, that is Format->Styles and Formatting. Yes, but no combo. I have both here. Abdel.

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: I see. However, we might think about a panel solution (as in OOs, Word 2003 and InDesign), where you could have a button "change to". At least the former two have a combox and a panel (for the more complex tasks), so it's not necessarily

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