On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:39:51AM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: > On Monday 15 December 2003 10:34 am, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > I do think that somethng should be done, however. Moving forward with > > > a flawed design is a bad idea IMO. > > > > I don't have a strong opinion here as I never used that feature myself. > > That's because Branches are a new feature. I can see them being used a _lot_ > by our users in the future. Imagine a teacher creating problem sheets (with > answers in a branch). > > Math macros are an exact analogy here...
My imagined solution for math macros (with extension to text macros) is to make them (at least logically) part of the metrics/draw mechanism. This way we'd have real 'scope' and won't get clashs between different buffers etc. But I don't think this will happen soon. Andre'
