Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote:
This would be rather easy with changes-as-insets, but currently
changes are just like a font setting. So I doubt that we could go
painlessly to this level of generality.
I thought about mentioning this possibility, but didn't want to start
the "everything's an inset" war again. ;-)
rh
Couldn't you have warned me for that before I proposed that we might
make tab an inset ?
;-)
I'm sure we'll get to have that discussion again one day. In reality,
it's all about where to draw the line between insets, which are
incredibly flexible---hiding changes, as JMarc said, would be trivial
with insets, just don't paint them---and ranges, which are less so, but
for which layout is a lot easier. Note, for example, the weird things
that happen with line width when you have an open footnote at the end of
a paragraph. I really do not want to see that phenomenon with a deleted
handful of words. But if we could solve THAT problem, then that would
open up a lot of territory, I think. That said, I know next to nothing
about this, and the people who do say the problem is very hard.
Richard
