On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >>>>> "Asger" == Asger K Alstrup Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> Asger> -- This is a demonstration[foot|and what a demonstration it is.
> Asger> Hopefully, it will demonstrate that a Parbox need not be
> Asger> rectangular.] of the new display structure. --
>
> I vote against that. I think the current display gives a better
> WYSIWYMness to the foot note. As you show it, the user will not have a
> clear view of how the footnote will look: imagine there is an
> enumeration or a displayed formula in the footnote, for example. And
> indents will not look right either.
I'm in agreeance with JMarc on this point. A footnote should look like a
footnote. Just like it does now. We can of course still improve on
the current situation but I don't think this does.
> Asger> The advantage of these three rectangles is not only that we can
> Asger> do the footnotes like above, but also that we naturally can
> Asger> handle things like hanging indents, and similar stuff this way.
>
> Hanging indents do live in a rectangle, not in a strangely shaped
> region.
Yes, but that rectangle has a chunk out of the top corner which gives you
the smaller top rectangle.
I remember reading that in one of those design docs or was it comments in
the source code? Hmmm... probably in InsetText.[Ch] I think.
> >> Do you mean that ParagraphParams will be shared and use reference
> >> couting like LStrings?
>
> Asger> Yes, that's one feasible implementation. The point is that we
> Asger> want to share the identical instances.
>
> I'm not sure it will be easy...
The default paragraph settings for a given layout are used for each
paragraph of a given type. Whenever a particular paragraph has its
settings changed we copy-on-write. However unlike LStrings we're probably
more likely to end up with multiple identical copies as a user makes a
change and then reverts it. It would be nice to have a default ParaParams
and a change set or diff for those occasions. But then again the memory
usage isn't going to be any worse than we have now.
Here's another question for you:
Will minipages be a variant of an InsetParbox? or just a bool in the
InsetParbox structure? or have I forgotten something?
Allan. (ARRae)
