On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 10:22:59AM +0100, Michael Gerz wrote:
> Martin Vermeer wrote:
> 
> >Basically it introduces one more position in a paragraph, after the last
> >character (i.e., pos = par.size() ) to represent the change attached to
> >the paragraph break ("carriage return", which we don't really have in
> >our model).
> > 
> >
> Martin, thank you very much for your work! One question: Others have 
> pointed out that there should be an inset for line and paragraph breaks. 
> This sounds like a more elegant solution that just adding one more 
> hidden character.

I don't necessarily agree. We do have a newline inset, but I kind of
like the current philosophy of a text being a container of paragraphs,
with one more cursor position than there are characters [not considering
boundary, that is]
 
> >2) I added a "[C]" display in the status bar when change tracking is on.
> >Actually I believe we can now allow CT to be switched on and off by the
> >user without demanding a merge, which caused trouble under the old
> >architecture. That's more like the way OOo (and MS Word?) works, and
> >saner IMHO.
> > 
> >
> That is just great!
> 
> I am busy right now but I will hopefully find some time for testing by 
> the end of next week.

Let's hope the tree is open for 1.4.1 then...

- Martin 

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