On Tue, 04 Jan 2000 17:44:48 +1100, the world broke into rejoicing as
Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Christopher Browne writes:
> > On Tue, 04 Jan 2000 15:48:46 +1100, the world broke into rejoicing as
> > Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > > I have suggested that we might want to add the ability to draw lines
> > > on reports. Does the following interface sit well with
> > > you?
> >
> > It's close enough that I can *usefully* disagree.
>
> > Displaying dates isn't the same as formulae; dates, once rendered, are
> > pretty static. I'd be quite game to have some functions that help
> > "prettyprint" dates into a string. But I don't think it warrants
> > (report-date).
> >
>
> Fair enough. I'll just make sure that there are Scheme wrappers
> for the date-printing functions.
>
> You will lose the ability to treat dates differently for Gnumeric,
> which may or may not be important to you.
Right you are. Good point. It doesn't matter in HTML or Text or TeX
if the date remains "a date," but it may matter in spreadsheet form.
... Lots elided...
> I think what we really have here is an attempt to tackle what are
> two semantically different things - placing lines around individual
> entries, and placing lines next to or around *groups* of entries,
> in the one syntax. Either we approach them as semantically
> independent concept and provide two different syntaxes for doing
> them, or we come up with a syntax that suits both.
Indeed. *Good* point.
In effect, we need to be able to attach borders using some sort of
"schema" that associates them not with each cell, but with a group
of cells.
Something like having six (or more?) values corresponding to the
edges of:
+--+--+
| | |
+--+--+
| | |
+--+--+
Which could then be associated with a line.
I'm thinking of there being some sort of pattern matching so that
it could be more sophisticated, but have to think about it quite a
bit more.
...
> Yep, I'd agree that that is a suitable syntax for placing borders
> around individual cells. I'm not convinced it's a suitable syntax
> for drawing boxes around things.
>
> I would be happy to be convinced otherwise :)
I think you're right; the "way of doing something more sophisticated"
needs to be thought through further.
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