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Toggle Make/Unmake a phrase #26

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. I have the impression, that Make/Unmake a phrase are tools which exclude
each other for the phrase box at a certain position:
- either there are several words of the text put together to a phrase (in
this case: unmake can be applied)
- or there is a single word which has the option, when other words around
it are seclected to become a phrase: make a phrase can be applied

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Why not let those icons: Make/Unmake a phrase toggle like the Show/Hide
punctuation, or like:
- Ignore punctuation boundaries/stop selection at boundaries.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
AI 4.1.1./Linux

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by wolfgang...@gmx.de on 11 Mar 2009 at 2:53

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Your impressions are basically correct re the functions of the "Make a Phrase"
toolbar button and "Unmake a Phrase" toolbar button. However, those two buttons 
- and
the next five buttons on the tool bar - are all functions that help the user
associate or disassociate target text adaptations with zero, one or more source 
text
words. The process of adding or removing phrases, doing, editing or removing
retranslations, and inserting or removing placeholders, can be fairly common
operations, and they require that a selection in the source text be made before 
those
actions can be effected. For these functions, it seemed best to us to provide 
buttons
for each function and enable those that are appropriate for a given situation, 
but
disable those that are inappropriate for a given situation - according to what 
is
selected (or not selected) in the source text. A toggle button conflates two
alternatives into a single image, only one of which is visible in the current 
state.
For the common functions mentioned above, however, we felt it was more helpful 
for a
user to be able to see that there are dedicated buttons for each of these 
tasks, and
be able to see what the alternatives are, even though some alternatives may be
disabled because their use is inappropriate for certain circumstances.

Original comment by adaptitbill@gmail.com on 12 Mar 2009 at 2:10