On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 11:25:14AM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > It seems there is now some uncertainty about how to handle the > percentage lengths although it seems everyone wants to go back to an > int. > > Would you accept the pair<int, int> proposal?
What makes this better as a single int? > have a: > union { > int sp_length; > float percentage; > } val_; LyX is not a device driver. No need for unions ;-} > decimal point. Then again do we really need to do any limiting of the > percentage other than range limiting of 0 - 100 percent? (actually we > need a range of 0 - 1 for the output) Why this limitation? What's wrong with 120% of \columnwidth? Andre' -- André Pönitz .............................................. [EMAIL PROTECTED]