On Sunday 07 December 2003 06:53 am, you wrote: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 03:03:42PM -0500, Kuba Ober wrote: > > There will also be some constraints as to how far a character style can > > go. I imagine we will artificially need to terminate all character > > styling at the end of the paragraph, otherwise it'll be an uncontainable > > mess. This may actually make sense for logical formatting - typically, > > you're making a word/sentence bolded, not the whole document; if it's the > > whole document you should adjust the default paragraph style properties > > (in LyX's case it would be more like document properties). > > > > I haven't read the whole thread yet, so if my points have already been > > raised, feel free to ignore me :) > > Well, there is the point that a quotation occationally will contain a few > short paragraphs, so using the paragraph end as a limit won't work well. > > People do select "two and a half" paragraph in order to apply a style. > Perhaps not often, but it do happen. It is nice if it works, even if > the code have to create several insets for the multiple paragraphs.
Oh yes, then certainly it will work like that. Another way of doing it is instead of having character style insets just have character style flags and have the core do the job. I.e. have "bold on" and "bold off" flags. Obviously their manipulation will need some equilibristic skills. I guess that implementation with insets is just plain easier, and making the insets behave to the user as "expected" should involve less work than keeping state of the flags sprinkled around the text. Kuba
