Þann fim 15.mar 2012 03:55, skrifaði King Duck: > I think it's because the words for bold and italic change depending on the > language. If you just use a character and show the effect, it tells the > user what it does without having to refer to a specific word. > > ~ Maggie > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Sabin Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Just out of curiosity, is there a particular reason we're not using "B" >> and "I" to indicate Bold and Italic? I don't care either way, but am >> curious as to why. >> >> For what it's worth, Thunderbird (what I'm using now) uses a capital >> letter "A". It's just hard to tell the difference between an italic "A" >> and a non-italic "A". >> >> - sd
I've responded to a similar question before: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03712.html> Saw also that someone asked why not use lowercase letters. It's the same principle; uppercase *A*, /A/ and _A_ should be recognisable as *pictograms* representing the first letter of the Latin alphabet. There is a reason why signs read "EXIT" and not "Exit" at international airports - and also why those are progressively being replaced by symbolised person/arrow/door. Just thoughts. Sveinn -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
