Re: about character styles

2008-09-27 Thread rgheck
Uwe Stöhr wrote: rgheck schrieb: So I fear that users won't use character styles when they are not able to modify and define them easily. But honestly, it isn't that difficult! I would have thought you could look at the logicalmkup module and figure out pretty quickly how to do a new one.

Re: about character styles

2008-09-27 Thread rgheck
Uwe Stöhr wrote: rgheck schrieb: So I fear that users won't use character styles when they are not able to modify and define them easily. But honestly, it isn't that difficult! I would have thought you could look at the logicalmkup module and figure out pretty quickly how to do a new one.

Re: about character styles

2008-09-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 24/09/2008 20:08, Uwe Stöhr wrote: rgheck schrieb: Well, if you're going to leave InsetInfo until after 1.6, we can do this together. You can tell me what character styles you want, and I'll produce definitions of them that you can use. This wouldn't help. What we need is a way to define

Re: about character styles

2008-09-25 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi Uwe, Richard, Abdel, as a user (with some latex background and several years as grateful LyX user) I would like to contribute my 2cents. For me it would be a helpful start to find in the documentation a short explanation of the existing character styles. That certainly would help to

Re: about character styles

2008-09-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Abdelrazak Younes schrieb: There is a difference between _using_ character styles and _creating_ character style. Using already defined character style (ex: urls) is already possible and easy. I'm aware of that, but using character styles without being able to define, and more important, to

Re: about character styles

2008-09-25 Thread rgheck
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Abdelrazak Younes schrieb: There is a difference between _using_ character styles and _creating_ character style. Using already defined character style (ex: urls) is already possible and easy. I'm aware of that, but using character styles without being able to define, and

Re: about character styles

2008-09-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
rgheck schrieb: So I fear that users won't use character styles when they are not able to modify and define them easily. But honestly, it isn't that difficult! I would have thought you could look at the logicalmkup module and figure out pretty quickly how to do a new one. I know how to do

Re: about character styles

2008-09-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 24/09/2008 20:08, Uwe Stöhr wrote: rgheck schrieb: Well, if you're going to leave InsetInfo until after 1.6, we can do this together. You can tell me what character styles you want, and I'll produce definitions of them that you can use. This wouldn't help. What we need is a way to define

Re: about character styles

2008-09-25 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi Uwe, Richard, Abdel, as a user (with some latex background and several years as grateful LyX user) I would like to contribute my 2cents. For me it would be a helpful start to find in the documentation a short explanation of the existing character styles. That certainly would help to

Re: about character styles

2008-09-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Abdelrazak Younes schrieb: There is a difference between _using_ character styles and _creating_ character style. Using already defined character style (ex: urls) is already possible and easy. I'm aware of that, but using character styles without being able to define, and more important, to

Re: about character styles

2008-09-25 Thread rgheck
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Abdelrazak Younes schrieb: There is a difference between _using_ character styles and _creating_ character style. Using already defined character style (ex: urls) is already possible and easy. I'm aware of that, but using character styles without being able to define, and

Re: about character styles

2008-09-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
rgheck schrieb: So I fear that users won't use character styles when they are not able to modify and define them easily. But honestly, it isn't that difficult! I would have thought you could look at the logicalmkup module and figure out pretty quickly how to do a new one. I know how to do

about character styles

2008-09-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
rgheck schrieb: Well, if you're going to leave InsetInfo until after 1.6, we can do this together. You can tell me what character styles you want, and I'll produce definitions of them that you can use. This wouldn't help. What we need is a way to define your own character styles. That means

Re: about character styles

2008-09-24 Thread Richard Heck
Uwe Stöhr wrote: rgheck schrieb: Well, if you're going to leave InsetInfo until after 1.6, we can do this together. You can tell me what character styles you want, and I'll produce definitions of them that you can use. This wouldn't help. What we need is a way to define your own character

Re: about character styles

2008-09-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Richard Heck schrieb: Why do you have to explain them simply to use them? Imagine you are a rather new or average LyXer and read the docs because you are interested in the different features. You surely want to know what the black boxes are for. When you found it out, you surely also want

about character styles

2008-09-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
rgheck schrieb: Well, if you're going to leave InsetInfo until after 1.6, we can do this together. You can tell me what character styles you want, and I'll produce definitions of them that you can use. This wouldn't help. What we need is a way to define your own character styles. That means

Re: about character styles

2008-09-24 Thread Richard Heck
Uwe Stöhr wrote: rgheck schrieb: Well, if you're going to leave InsetInfo until after 1.6, we can do this together. You can tell me what character styles you want, and I'll produce definitions of them that you can use. This wouldn't help. What we need is a way to define your own character

Re: about character styles

2008-09-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Richard Heck schrieb: Why do you have to explain them simply to use them? Imagine you are a rather new or average LyXer and read the docs because you are interested in the different features. You surely want to know what the black boxes are for. When you found it out, you surely also want