Martin Vermeer wrote: > On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 19:07, Helge Hafting wrote: >> Insert a table, left justify the columns. Write someting in the >> first cell to increase the column width. >> >> Notice that it is hard to position the cursor by clicking on the >> cell below, that works only if clicking in the leftmost part, >> i.e. in a spot where it actually is possible to put the cursor. >> >> click a bit more to the right (still inside the cell) and >> the cursor jumps up to a cell higher up that has enough text so >> that the x position is valid. > > Actually you should look at line 1157 in insettabular.C, where the > function dist is called, defined at line 1100. It gives the "Manhattan > distance". Instead one could use getCellXPos line 1168 to define an > x-only distance. Perfectly doable...
Note that it's more a problem of using the cell's dimensions/position instead of the insettext's dimension/position rather than a xy vs. only x thing. But maybe I'm misinterpreting what you're suggesting. Alfredo
