>> As I wrote in the comment above this source code, the Box GUI handles
"special values" line
>> \height, \columnwidth, etc. internally as "in".
>
> This is bad... I thought Germany always used the metrics system? And LyX was started by a German,
> wasn't it? :-)
I understand that this behaviour might be confusing, but I'm innocent here. This has been introduced
when the box dialog was introduced with LyX 1.4.0. I don't know who to blame. But anyway, it works
well and I can see no potential problems, so better blame nobody. You have to use a dummy unit for
the special values, so what's the problem in using "in", using "cm" instead makes no difference, and
the behaviour is well already explained by comments in the source code? Feel free to add more
comments if you like.
>> So to check if "1\height" was set, you check if the value is "1in" and the "special" flag is
>> set. This behaviour is not my idea, that's how the box GUI already works.
>
> Could you please add this explanation in a FIXME in the relevant code source?
I'll do this.
regards Uwe
