Underline change tracking additions

[Daniel]

On 2020-04-12 08:33, Daniel wrote:
> I saw that a new preference was added to disable Underline change 
> tracking additions:
> 
> https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX24#preferences
> 
> I just wanted to flag that this might make it harder to sensibly 
> implement change tracking of some other changes, such as text style 
> changes. For example, Libre Writer marks text style changes without 
> underline. I think it would be nice to implement text style changes as 
> Libre Writer does (minus making text bold which seems just an odd choice 
> but I might be missing something because it seems so obviously wrong to 
> me). (https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/1043#comment:21)
> 
> In contrast, the only application I came across without underlined 
> change tracking additions is Apple Pages. However, it does not support 
> tracking text style changes, as is currently the case in LyX as well.
> 
> Daniel
> 

Or maybe there is a specific problem with \underline vs the \color 
command? Maybe the latter works in cases where the former doesn't?

Daniel