On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 10:53 -0500, Bennett Helm wrote:
> On Mar 7, 2006, at 10:32 AM, Martin Vermeer wrote:
> 
> >> What's the status of 2195 <http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?
> >> id=2195>? Martin's singlerow10.diff <http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg85934.html> works very well on Mac, though it
> >> does have a minor problem with screen drawing in some circumstances.
> >> (I'll post a note on bugzilla.) Without this patch, though, working
> >> with insets in 1.4.0 on Mac is painful.
> >
> > I posted an answer there... my question is: should the 2195 patch work
> > also for nested insets, or is one layer of insets good enough?
> 
> (I posted an answer there, too.) But to respond to this question: I  
> think nesting of insets is important. The screen drawing problem I  
> report there is one I run into fairly often: I've also found myself  
> creating branches for notes to myself, and then putting a comment  
> inset inside the branch, so that I can print out my comments or not  
> easily.
> 
> As I noted on bugzilla, I suspect fixing the problem won't cause a  
> speed hit, so (I hope!) we don't need to choose between speed and  
> nested insets.

I am not so optimistic...this is tricky stuff. The inset is wide in
order to cover up rendering artefacts ("turds") that would be left by
selective re-rendering of rows. Give up the wideness and you'll either
see artefacts or be forced to re-render everything.

But I'll sleep on it ;-)

- Martin

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