Suggestion: Adding Font Style Shortcuts to LyX Toolbar

[Pavel Sanda]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 09:09:02PM -0400, Fred Huangfu wrote:
> I suggest adding toolbar buttons for common font styles such as bold,
> italic, and underline to enhance formatting efficiency, similar to those
> found in word processors like Microsoft Word.
> Currently, users must navigate through menus to change the font style,
> which may not be convenient.

Well, if you after efficiency all the font styles can be reached via keyboard
shortcuts (ctrl + b/e/u), which is presumably faster than switching from
keyboard to mouse.

> I hope you could consider my suggestion. Thank you for your continued
> efforts in developing LyX.

I do not have super strong opinion here, but I think that not having font
style buttons was deliberate omission to make little push toward semantic
text styles rather then just to use font tweaks used by default by various 
*office editors. 

Pavel