Hi all, I'd like to suggest something be done to provide faster access to character style selection. Right now every time you use a character style you must click Edit->Text_style and then select the character style from a list that includes other junk like Caps and the like.
I'd like to suggest either an always-there text style dropdown similar to the current environment dropdown, or a toolbar icon that brings up a character style list (without extraneous stuff like Caps and Custom and all that stuff). It would be great if this could be linked to a keyboard shortcut also. I use a character style every few paragraphs. Even in the best of situations, character styles are inconvenient during authoring. You need to highlight what you want to style, and then choose the character style, or pick the style and type into it and then find a way to get past the character style. But when you add to that the need to preface it with Edit->Text_style, it becomes downright painful. Character styles are a fundamental part of what the LyX community calls WYSIWYM, so the easier it is the more true it is to LyX. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
