Daniel Lohmann wrote: > I am a bit surprised about the way character styles are represented in the > GUI (with this kind of inset and the name below). I had expected it to be > more like "Emphasis" and the other text styles so that one can defines, how > the text *itself* does appear - and not the character style label. > > I suppose the reason is support for nesting?
Yes, amongst others. > (Just figured out that you can > nest character styles, which definitely makes sense. Pretty cool!) Problem > is just that it makes the text a bit uneasy to read on the screen, as a > line containing a word with applied character style(s) takes additional > space, resulting in different line spacings. You can hide the label by right-clicking in the character style. Unfortunately, this is not saved, and you have to do it for any single charstyle again. For 1.5, I'm just working on a patch that lets you hide all labels at once and probably also saves the settings (whether the labels are shown or not). The former might even go into some future version of 1.4 (the latter not, because it entails a file format change). For representation issues, I'm also thinking about adding preview-latex facility to character styles. That would give you a wysiwyg impression of how the output will look like. All in all, character styles are still very much in development. > Is there any way to define own "text styles" such as "Emphasis" or "Noun"? Yes, you can just define it as any other character style. > As I understand it, this should conceptually be a character style as well, > even though it seems to be implemented differently. For the future, I think they will be implemented as character styles, once the feature is matured. Jürgen > Thanks again! > > Daniel
