Re: announce lyx-1.1.6pre2; Preferences menu

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

>>>>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Angus> I've just discovered a small inconsistency here. I wasn't
Angus> allowing the user to input anything other than an unsigned int
Angus> for the screen font sizes. Since the defaults (on display) are:

Angus> \screen_font_sizes 5.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 10.0 12.0 14.4 17.28 20.74
Angus> 24.88

Angus> Then that was probably a little irritating.

Angus> I'm thinking of a new fl_unsigned_float_filter. For the time
Angus> being it's very simple. It will accept a ".", but should it
Angus> also allow users to input a "," if they're "foreign"? Or is
Angus> this exactly what LC_NUMERIC=C forbids?

Do not accept "," in floats. Concerning the filter, we have a
isStrDbl in lstring.C which may be useful.

JMarc