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[drmajorbob]

@SWM

styles ‘are a very powerful tool for post-processing your output document’ which (in line with your observation) explicitly encourage users to focus on the output and the eventual WYSIWYG or ‘what you style’ of the final document. Styles really mess with the writing experience: they actually grind it to a halt.

Editor styles don’t necessarily format anything; they serve as semantic information. I use a style for emphasis, a style for curse words, and a style for dialog transmitted across the 2099 version of the world wide web. They delineate kinds of text, enabling Compile to intelligently format it as needed. It really is the opposite of WYSIWYG.

To Italicize Thoughts or Not

Closer to ten seconds, but yes. Here’s a bit of Babel dialog: [Screen Shot 2022-06-16 at 18.45.33] And here it is in the PDF Compile: [Screen Shot 2022-06-16 at 18.46.13] The Babel dialog is Helvetica, everything else is Bookerly. If the stars are judged too gaudy at some point, they can be changed to anything.