Subject: Re: commit: Fix all known section break and column break bugs.
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Sun Aug 26 2001 - 23:30:39 CDT
At 09:08 AM 8/27/01 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote:
>Full multi-column support. Column breaks are correct now. You have
>multiple rows of columns from the same section on the same page.
Snazzy screen shot! Is this kind of effect triggered by the markup somehow,
or is it automatically calculated?
I guess what I'm asking is how does the user indicate whether they want two
rows of columns on the page or just one? Previously, the way to get this
effect was to put a continuous section break between the first row and the
second. (The same technique could be used to get the journal-style look of
a single-column intro followed by a two-column document body.) I'm pretty
sure that a technique like that would be compatible with the way this is
done in other WP file formats.
Are you still doing it that way, or is there some new markup to learn?
>I put a spin button on the Columns dialog to allow arbitary numbers of
columns.
>I plan to enable control of the "Space After column" Section property in
>this dialog too.
Sweet. Will we need to widen the preview to make it look prettier?
>I'm thinking of putting in a new section-level property "Maximum column
>height" so that columns will automatically break at the height you set
>
>See: http://seviorpc.ph.unimelb.edu.au/abiword/multicolumns.jpg
>For a cool screen shot :-)
That's an interesting effect. Do you have any idea whether we'll be able to
make it survive a round trip through other file formats, or would it be an
AbiWord-only feature?
>I believe this is 100% correct right now. However I would really
>appreciate feeback on the various bugs in bugzilla. In addition I think
>the code you be speeded a up a bit as for some reason, multi-redraws are
>being triggered sometimes.
Awesome! I love it when people can feel free to really beat on a feature.
:-)
>Anyway, enjoy our new few feature. Coding this has really helped me
>understand how to do the hard parts of tables.
>
>Once 1.0 is out I think tables will come pretty quickly.
Excellent. Does this mean that you've got the formatter tuned up enough to
handle all the screw cases of nested tables and cells spanning rows and
columns? Aside from all the UI quirks (navigation, etc.), those are some of
the worst aspects of table formatting.
Paul
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