On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 02:47:50PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > >That's true for the current insets, absolutely *not* for char styles. > >It's not acceptable for it to need two keypresses to get from a to b in > >'ab' just because a has a different char style. > > But why would you want to have two different charstyles in the _same_ > word? If you need that then I would say that this is a use case where > you really want to use font attributes and not charstyle.
This applies equally well to punctuation, spacing, whatever. Cursor movement operations must operate 'visibly' in all circumstances. > >This is also a difficult UI problem that will frustrate people I think. > >Imagine if I have: > > > > blah blah __blah foo foo__ > > > >and I want to reset the third blah to have no style like the others. > >It'll be immensely annoying to have to carefully select just up to the > >'b' (any further, and you'll have the whole inset). > > Look at what I proposed in another message to you: I think that > basically this problem would be easily solved by having one inset per word: > > blah blah __blah__ __foo__ __foo__ > > Of course, on export to LateX, LyX would be free to merge adjacent inset > into _one_ charstyle. It's an interesting idea. I need to think some more about it. My main immediate problem would be that the selection behaviour depends entirely on whether it has a style. This still doesn't seem intuitive. I absolutely do want to be able to cut and paste with the 'innards' of words, regardless of style. regards john
