On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 07:19:24PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: > > Decision on what the input means, is then during the 'apply()'. > For example: > > *) width: 50 scale% > height: 1.5 cm > > would mean > "scale = 50 % ; ignore height input" > > *) width: [empty] > height: 1.5 cm > > would mean > "height = 1.5 cm ; width scales wrt. aspect ratio"
This is very confusing. Perhaps the contents of the width text box should be erased if the user enters something in the height text box, and the width type is scale. A different solution is to having a different text box for scale. > >3. (both) > >The height units list contain \textwidth, \columnwidth which are > >not usually used for measuring height, but doesn't contain > >\textheight. > > Well, in the dialog these units show up as "text%", "col%", > "page%" etc. Would it be better if "text%" as the height unit > becomes a "\textheight" appendix in LaTeX ? That would be > rather complicated to implement, I bet. If it complicates the code, it is OK to allow selecting both \textwidth and \textheight for either the figure width or height.
