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:
>>
>>
>>
>>>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
>>
>>
> 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!
> :)
>

Hmm. I don't know. We need to allow our users to shoot themselves in the
foot so we can import (and fix) MS Word documents.

There are really a lot of broken documents MS Word documents with tables
that extend paste the right edge of the paper out in the wild.

Martin

> Ryan
>
Received on Thu Jun 24 19:38:28 2004