On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 01:49:05PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote:

> > the most obvious place to start is a toolbar. One day I'd like tables to
> > have handles too.
> 
> What is a "handle"?

Think excel: grey borders allowing simple manipulation of the table. A
context menu would allow you to add remove columns and rows.

> > Dunno about mathed, it's trickier there ...
> 
> Math tables are certainly less trickier than ordinary tables...

Sure, but handles would look really odd in mathed :)

> Apart from that this seems to be a pure GUI problem as both kinds of tables 
> implement the necessary manipulator LFUNs...

Yes, it is. (btw, when are you going to fix the menus ?)

regards
john

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