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[David Allouche <address@hidden>]

On Monday 01 July 2002 18:56, Jean-Baptiste wrote:

> 1) the state of the style stack under your current
> cursor is displayed on the bottom right.
> Very good, but it would be nice if, with a right
> click, you could have a submenu stating :
> remove->stack style list from which you could
> select a text attribute to remove.
> I think that this would at least partially make up
> for the lost word users, that select some text,
> emphasize it, and then would like to see it normal
> again. Fact is that i couldnt find any "style removal
> option", and that I think this feature would be a perfect
> replacement.

I think that is a great idea. It can indeed provide an intuitive way
to remove a style without introducing non-structured (Word-like)
features or elaborate heuristics.

At the moment you can remove the innermost style with E-backspace, but
that is not really advertised in the user interface.

> 2) being able to split the style stack :
> She sometimes wants to split a dotted list into two.
> want would be nice would, again, be a popup menu, with

This feature has already been asked for quite a few time, but I think
your idea of introducing a style stack in the menu makes it much more
practical than the naive implementation.

I will happen sometime, more structured edition features are quite
high in the wishlist.

> 3) she's an experimental scientist and would like to see
> "Hypothesys" "Experiment" "Results" "interpretation",
> what they call it... But I think from a previous post on
> the list, that this is something i can do myself...

Well, that would not be hard to do. Though I do not think I can do it
right without additional information. I am not familiar with the use
of theorem-like environment. But if you can be more precise (are they
theorem-like, proof-like, or warning-like, how numbering should be
handled) creating an appropriate package would be piece of cake.

NB: in the case you are, like me, DIY-challenged, you can still try to
impress here by doing that piece of software yourself ;-)

It would be nice you you could have a look at the wish list on the
Wiki [1], and write a proposal that we could include directly...

[1] http://alqua.com/tmresources/wish%20list

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