Re: Table size

2000-06-21 Thread Juergen Vigna
Why not do this the way the figure sizing is done? A set of radio buttons with in, cm, pt, %textwidth (or %columnwidth), and a type-in for the number. I'll grant you this takes up a lot of space, but that's a question of form design. Also, it might be sensible to have a separate pop-up

Re: Table size

2000-06-21 Thread Juergen Vigna
> > Why not do this the way the figure sizing is done? A set of radio > buttons with in, cm, pt, %textwidth (or %columnwidth), and a type-in for > the number. I'll grant you this takes up a lot of space, but that's a > question of form design. Also, it might be sensible to have a separate >

Re: Table size

2000-06-20 Thread Stephan Witt
Juergen Vigna wrote: Hi Stephan! Yes, I don't need WYSIWYM too. Normally it is irrelevant where the linebreak inside the cell text occurs if the cell width is given. You'll see that in the new tabular-inset I already have a WYSIWYM view of the tabular and you're also able to

Re: Table size

2000-06-20 Thread Carl Ollivier-Gooch
Stephan Witt wrote: Stephan But what I missed is the possiblity to enter expressions Stephan as column width like 0.2\textwidth. This is sometimes more Stephan convinient then absolute column width. Juergen Yes this may be convenient, but then I'm not able anymore to check the Juergen

Re: Table size

2000-06-20 Thread Stephan Witt
Juergen Vigna wrote: > > Hi Stephan! > > > > > Yes, I don't need WYSIWYM too. Normally it is irrelevant > > where the linebreak inside the cell text occurs if the cell > > width is given. > > > > You'll see that in the new tabular-inset I already have a WYSIWYM view > of the tabular and you're

Re: Table size

2000-06-20 Thread Carl Ollivier-Gooch
Stephan Witt wrote: > Stephan > But what I missed is the possiblity to enter expressions Stephan > as column width like 0.2\textwidth. This is sometimes more Stephan > convinient then absolute column width. Juergen > Yes this may be convenient, but then I'm not able anymore to check the Juergen

RE: Table size

2000-06-19 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 16-Jun-2000 Kristoffer Lawson wrote: Is there any idea when we might get visual feedback to the "size" attribute for table cells? Or even a horizontal scrollbar when tables go off-screen? Currently editing tables is virtually impossible. Well you always can use Ctrl-Enter to split

RE: Table size

2000-06-19 Thread Kristoffer Lawson
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Juergen Vigna wrote: On 16-Jun-2000 Kristoffer Lawson wrote: Is there any idea when we might get visual feedback to the "size" attribute for table cells? Or even a horizontal scrollbar when tables go off-screen? Currently editing tables is virtually impossible.

RE: Table size

2000-06-19 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 19-Jun-2000 Kristoffer Lawson wrote: Well you always can use Ctrl-Enter to split rows up into more virtural rows and so it don't get so wide. Ah, but this is really quite a hack and doesn't do what I want. There's no text justification and I still have to try and work out what's going

RE: Table size

2000-06-19 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 16-Jun-2000 Kristoffer Lawson wrote: > > Is there any idea when we might get visual feedback to the > "size" attribute for table cells? Or even a horizontal scrollbar when > tables go off-screen? Currently editing tables is virtually impossible. > Well you always can use Ctrl-Enter to

RE: Table size

2000-06-19 Thread Kristoffer Lawson
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Juergen Vigna wrote: > On 16-Jun-2000 Kristoffer Lawson wrote: > > > > Is there any idea when we might get visual feedback to the > > "size" attribute for table cells? Or even a horizontal scrollbar when > > tables go off-screen? Currently editing tables is virtually

RE: Table size

2000-06-19 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 19-Jun-2000 Kristoffer Lawson wrote: >> >> Well you always can use Ctrl-Enter to split rows up into more virtural >> rows and so it don't get so wide. > > Ah, but this is really quite a hack and doesn't do what I want. There's > no text justification and I still have to try and work out

Table size

2000-06-16 Thread Kristoffer Lawson
Is there any idea when we might get visual feedback to the "size" attribute for table cells? Or even a horizontal scrollbar when tables go off-screen? Currently editing tables is virtually impossible. I use the size for when I have a longer piece of text for a table cell and I believe there is

Table size

2000-06-16 Thread Kristoffer Lawson
Is there any idea when we might get visual feedback to the "size" attribute for table cells? Or even a horizontal scrollbar when tables go off-screen? Currently editing tables is virtually impossible. I use the size for when I have a longer piece of text for a table cell and I believe there is