On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 03:59:42PM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > OK, space is not a good idea. But what about different background colors?
Might work. But I guess you'll end up with situations where the cursor is just on the border and if you have background colors independently from the logical cursor positon > By the way, talking about screen size of formulas, it would be nice to > have a horizontal scrollbar for off-screen formula. Or use the same hack > as for the tables. Go for it... Another solution would be line breaks within a cell that are only stored in the lyx file and get not exported (or turned into something harmless) when exporting to .tex (the latter to give tex2lyx a hint). This requires about change of a few dozen lines mainly in MathArray plus the code for the 'end-of-line' insets but is more or less straightforward. This way a user can break long lines by himself. This is also easier to navigate than long scrolling lines. > >Sure the formula navigation can (and should) be improved, but IMHO the pink > >corners are not part of the problem. > > Sure the current drawing strategy is the problem. It would be better to > just say to the frontend "Just draw the pink corners!" but this is not > possible ATM, and this is too much work to modify that. Math drawing was historically never a performance bottleneck. In the old updateInsetInInset times (with new mathed, i.e. 1.2.x) you could easily draw a 50x50 math table but not a 50x50 real table. Mathed drawing hasn't changed significantly since then. So I don't know why the pink corners suddenly appear as preformance killer. In fact I doubt people are poking into the right corner here. Abdre'
