Sorry, this was cc-ed to the developer list by mistake, on which I am not a subscriber.
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Maria Gouskova <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been dreaming of a horizontal scrollbar for LyX for a long > time, and it fixes some of the table editing problems, but not the one > I mentioned just now. BTW, I saw that there is a very old bug > report/request for a horizontal scrollbar feature, but the discussion > ends at a point where a workaround is proposed for editing equations. > The workaround does NOT work for tables, however. > > http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/1083 > > Maria > > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Rob Oakes <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm also having problems with this feature in LyX 2.0. I've found it to be >> tremendously inconsistent, even amongst different tables in my document. In >> the case of one table, whenever I click in a second column of the table, it >> causes the entire tabular to fly off screen and makes editing text all but >> impossible. >> >> Might it be better to pursue an alternative UI for editing large tables in >> the workview? Perhaps by adding horizontal scrollbars if the table is wider >> than the view? I haven't looked at the table code, so I'm not sure how >> difficult it would be to implement this. But I'd definitely like to cast a >> vote toward changing this particular behavior. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Rob >> >> >> On Jun 11, 2010, at 8:33 AM, Maria Gouskova wrote: >> >>> Dear LyX users, >>> >>> I am trying to understand the principles behind cursor and window >>> behavior in the LyX GUI during table editing. Suppose you're working >>> on a table that fits into the open document window completely. Move >>> the cursor (using either a mouse click or the arrow-down key) into a >>> row of the table. The window view jumps so that the line of the table >>> that contains the cursor is now either at the top of the LyX window or >>> the table is repositioned in the window. But this isn't >>> necessary---and it can be kind of a pain, since it realigns the window >>> in a way that's inconsistent with what happens during text editing, >>> and sometimes it makes it hard to find the cursor. During editing >>> regular text, the window view moves down only when the cursor line >>> would otherwise be too low to see. >>> >>> I suspect this is a feature, but I am hoping that it is a bug that can >>> be fixed! Ideally (in my view, anyway), tables would behave the same >>> way as text behaves. >>> >>> Technical details: Mac OS 10.6.3, LyX 1.6.6.1. >>> >>> I am sorry if this has been discussed recently--I only today noticed >>> that the LyX user mailing list unsubscribed everyone more than a month >>> ago... >>> >>> Maria >> >> >
