Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
This isn't about overlapping extents as I see it, it's about a natural
feel for the UI. In particular, if I click-drag at point A in this
diagram:
foo bar C foo bar A foo bar foo bar B
and drag towards B, it will prove extremely annoying that my selection
changes to cover C too. "That's not what I asked for!"
It happens for example in tabular inset when the selection changes to
encompass several cells.
It's OK with today's insets because they're clearly separate chunks of
text.
What would you advocate? Stay with ranges or try to make the insets
feel reasonable?
The solution is maybe to limit the number of words to *one* within a
given charstyle. This would mean that pressing <space> at the end of a
word will create automatically another inset of the same type. Then if
you want to go back to "normal" text, press [Backspace] to dissolve the
newly created inset and voila. I think this behavior would be very
intuitive and John's problem would be solved.
Abdel.
