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

Hubert Figuiere wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 03:05 +1000, msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
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>>Whereas MS word keeps the size of the cell to the right of 1 the same size
>>so the table becomes...
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>> 0===========1========2
>> 0 1 2
>> 0===========1========2
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>So people, if you don't think we should do things the MS way please speak up!
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>Not that I'm a MSFT fan (I'm not), but I think that their behavior is
>much more what we expect.
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>You have my vote.
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>Hub
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And mine as well, as long as you remember to put in edge detection so
the right edge of the cells cannot go past the edge of the page.

Pre-emptive bug reporting: try it, it's the wave of the future!
:)

Ryan
Received on Thu Jun 24 17:17:37 2004