Charles de Miramon writes:
> Well to emphasize a word in a italic paragraph, you need to put it in
> roman. So the UI of LyX is very logical and straight-forward to create
> good typography.

If you want to invert the _appearance_ of the  emphasized/non-emphasized 
text, then you should change the base text settings of the non-emphasized 
text (and the emphasized text will then be modified accordingly). And 
that is what appears to actually be happening here (you are switching the 
default style to that used by emphasis and vice versa). But this has 
nothing to do with changing what is emphasized.

IMO "emphasis" is a structural property that can be applied to elements of 
a document, not a typographical property (though it makes sense to depict 
such emphasized elements typographically and there are certain 
conventions for doing so on the traditional printed page).

To make this clearer, imagine taking this document to the television 
screen, or the cell phone, or to the Braille language. There, your 
italic/non-italic/small caps has no meaning at all, but "emphasized text" 
does.

And this brings me back to my original point that unless you are playing 
with the typography (which is LaTex's job) instead of defining text that 
should be emphasized, there is little need for a command to "invert 
emphasis" (unless we go back to my example of dyslexia) and a much more 
common need for a quick and easy way to "clear all emphasis".

-Kevin (can you tell that I am waiting for the XML version of LyX?) :-)

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Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tiros-Translations

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