More lay description for "Use old style figures"?

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 12/07/2020 à 04:42, Scott Kostyshak a écrit :
> I don't know anything about this feature, but I had to pause for a few
> seconds when I saw it. I went through the following thought process:
> 
> - Does "old" refer to how things were before 2.4.0?
> - If this is about "figures", why is it a font setting?
> 
> It would be nice to describe the feature in a way that LyX users who
> don't know anything about "old style figures" can immediately realize
> that they don't need to check those boxes or search for what they do.
> The tooltip did not help me. It says "Use old style instead of lining
> figures".
> 
> Either for the feature text, or the tooltip text, would it make sense to
> say something like "Use medieval numerals" or "Use medieval-style
> numerals"? With one of those descriptions, I would have quickly realized
> I don't need to know anything about the feature.

You can find lots of synonyms there
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_figures

I would say that lowercase non-lining or hanging numerals is more 
explicit to me. I would say that we can use "old style figures" in the 
tootip and another in the checkbox.

OTOH "old style figures" is what LaTeX users recognize.

JMarc