Richard Heck wrote: > On 04/22/2012 07:23 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: >> The last days I had to write a report containing subscripts in almost >> every paragraph and got annoyed that one cannot set some text as a >> sub- or superscript via the text style dialog. I therefore propose to >> enhance the text style dialog to a "position" field.
If you need a physical formatting tool that often it might be a hint that you either need semantic markup (e.g. a character style), or a macro. Can you give an example, or is the contents secret? >> I mean we have in the text style dialog already the text size, color >> and shape. So why not also the position? Having it there would also >> ease up its usage as one then can highlight some text and press the >> Apply Last toolbar button as for all other text features. >> > Why is it easier to do this than to highlight the text and hit > "Insert>Formatting>Subscript", which is my case is just Alt-I, O, B? > There's also a reason not to do it via the Text Style dialog: Everything > else in that dialog is represented as a range, whereas scripts are > insets. That will make using the dialog for this much more complicated > than it might seem at first. Indeed. IMO, if the scripts are handled by the dialog, they should be ranges as well. Otherwise you will get lots of surprises. Initially I thought of implementing them as ranges, but then I came to the conclusion that an inset is better, both from a users POV (when do you need to mix sub/superscripts with other formatting like language or italic?) and implementation wise. Georg
