On 24-Aug-2000 Timm Danker wrote:
> "Garst R. Reese" wrote:
>> In the new inset tabular, I sometimes cannot get the red box to type
>> into, and I can't figure out what makes it suddenly appear sometimes.
>
> I experienced the same. I feel that it might be better to always display
> the red boxes, especially the empty ones, so that the user sees where he
> has to click when he wants to input some text. It would be even better
> if this red-boxed area could be somewhat larger, for example at least
> 50% of the cell even for empty ones. Would this make sense?
>
This red boxes are the bounding box of the text-inset where you can insert
some text. It is not possible to make them larger if the cell does not have
a fixed width (otherwise they are), and a simple cursor-right or cursor-left
let you enter the text inset, where you then can start typing text and do
all the stuff you could do on normal LyXText.
I understand that sometime (if the cell is still empty) and you click in
it with the mouse then you may not hit the inset, but a simple cursor-key
movement put's you in the enter area.
I could ALWAYS enter the text inset immediately, BUT then you could not
anymore be able to do selections of part of the tabular!
I also understand that this is a change in the behaviour of LyXTabulars,
but IMO if you know how it works it is not that much more (type)work.
Jürgen
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