04/10/2013 12:09, Liviu Andronic:
Sure, but what about existing documents? Say you want to read Help >
Embedded Objects and would rather have non-justified text in the LyX
work area, then you cannot just turn on the option as the document is
read-only: you cannot hit OK in Doc Settings. In a non read-only
document that has been saved, changing this option would also mark the
document as changed, although the final output wouldn't change at all.
I'm not sure which is best: per document setting or global pref.
However it seems to me that the current behaviour can be confusing and
seem inconsistent in some cases.
To be frank, it seems to me that global is the best choice. Add a nice
toggle icon if the user really wants to change everything depending on
the phase of the moon and be done with it. When one sends the document
to somebody else who does not have the same preference, should we add a
preference "disregard setting for justification"?
I think we are going too far with per-document settings. Even for
preferred output, I suspect there could be a better solution, because
this is often a per-user pref and not really per-document.
Storing this information in session file (with cursor position) would be
better than in the document, for example.
JMarc
