[Cuis-dev] Why Workspace>>#allowStylingWithEmphasis returns false?

[Hernan Wilkinson]

I like bold for class names... I think a preference would be the best

On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 at 16:47 Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org> wrote:

> On 3/18/2021 6:27 PM, Hernan Wilkinson via Cuis-dev wrote:
>
> Hi Juan,
>  when typing a class in the workspace, it appears in normal text but when
> typing it in a browser it appears in bold. That is kind of misleading to
> new smalltalkers and it was not like that a few versions ago.
>  I traced the problem back to allowStylingWithEmphasis that returns false
> for workspaces, but I do not understand its comment :-)
>
>  I'd like to have classes highlighted the same way in a browser and a
> workspace, but I'm not sure what will be broken if
> Workspace>>#allowStylingWithEmphasis returns true... Could you take a look?
>
> Thanks!
> Hernan.
>
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> Hi Hernán,
>
> That method used to answer true, and styling in workspaces was as you
> prefer. But bold or italic text might use different amount of space than
> regular text, and all text usually needed to be reflown during edition.
> Large workspaces with a lot of content became sluggish. So, I disabled
> emphasis (bold or italic) in styled code in workspaces.
>
> There are several options here. We could make that a preference (that
> could be on by default in CuisUniversity). Or we could just disable it also
> on browsers.
>
> Opinions?
>
> Cheers,
>
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