>Cubist wondered... >...but what happens when the user selects >Italic, and (let us say) 15% of the selected text is Italic? Do you make >every >character Italic (in addition to whatever other text-styles whichever >character might have), do you remove Italic from whichever characters have >it, or >what? > My own first impulse is to go with a "50% rule" -- count the text-styles >of individual characters, and if more than 50% of the selected text has a >given >style, treat it as tho the whole thing has it; otherwise, treat it as tho the >whole thing doesn't have that style. What do the rest of you think?
Good question, In the past I've implemented the same sort of brute force fudge as yours. I just ckecked my old copy of MSWord to see what that does and the behaviour is quite sensible IMO. If only some of the characters have the style you are applying, The style you are applying is applied to all the selected characters, and any other existing styles are preserved. If all of the characters have the style you are applying, the style you are applying is removed from the selected characters, and any other styles are preserved. So if for example some of the characters selected have italic, and your intention is to remove that while retaining other styling, you can apply italic twice to achieve that effect. >From a user perspective I think the straightforwardness of that recommends it to me. Martin Baxter _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
