On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 02:26:20PM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > If the info is in the metrics (and it is obviously) I would rather say > that we should split the metrics calculation between logical positioning > and screen positioning. I mean, a fraction is a fraction, you read 1 > over 2 independently of the way you put it on screen. We should maybe > think about putting some relationship between insets. XML (MathML?) > could help us for that because we won't need to do the
LyX internal structure is a tree, so is XML. There is no improvement to be expected in this area. > >Therefore it is not a bad idea IMO that screen > >coordinates are used for navigating formulas. > > I agree that, as it is now, we have no choice but to use the screen > information but this is not a good way to find the position of the > cursor. It is slow and bug prone. Just try to come up with something simpler that works equally smooth (or better). Andre'
