On 04/24/2016 10:21 PM, Cyrille Artho wrote: > Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> In 2.1.x, because of a bug in our validator code, we allowed negative >> values to be input into some document settings. This bug has been fixed >> for 2.2.0dev but what that means is that if you open such a document >> with LyX 2.2.0dev, you will not be able to save any changes to document >> settings unless you correct the negative values and it is not obvious to >> the user that this must be done. I can imagine this causing some >> confusion. >> >> For more details, see: >> http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/10095#comment:2 >> >> I'm not sure that we want to do anything for 2.2.0, but I wanted to >> check with the list to see the thoughts of others. For example, we could >> change the validators in page margins to allow negative values, which >> seem to work as intended with LaTeX. Or we could provide a warning when >> creating the document settings dialog that explains why the "OK" button >> is disabled. >> >> Scott >> > I would unconditionally allow negative values. They are often used to > fix issues with padding that is too large or incorrect bounding boxes > in images. > > If you suddenly break documents where users relied on negative > margins/spacing to fix other problems, you create more problems than > you solve.
So it seems to me that we need to correct the validator. Otherwise, we will break documents, since people can't change the document settings without "fixing" the negative values. Richard
