Re: Changing the way the top ruler works with tables.

From: Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere_at_teaser.fr>
Date: Thu Jun 24 2004 - 09:04:42 CEST

On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 03:05 +1000, msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:

> Whereas MS word keeps the size of the cell to the right of 1 the same size
> so the table becomes...
>
> 0===========1========2
> 0 1 2
> 0===========1========2
>
> Now the way we do things works great if there are no merged cells between
> 1 and 2 but really screws up if there are. We don't really have a good way
> to know which of the merged cells should be changed.
>
> So I plan to change AbiWord's behaviour to match that of MS Word unless
> people can convince me not to it. It is actually much less complicated to
> implement and will reduce the number of bugs we have.
>
> So people, if you don't think we should do things the MS way please speak up!

Not that I'm a MSFT fan (I'm not), but I think that their behavior is
much more what we expect.

You have my vote.

Hub

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