More lay description for "Use old style figures"?

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Am Samstag, den 11.07.2020, 22:42 -0400 schrieb Scott Kostyshak:
> 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".

Would this help?

"Use numerals with ascenders and descenders (Old Style Figures)
that fit more elegantly in lower-case text rather than numerals with
constant upper-case height (Lining Figures)"

Jürgen
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