Re: revisions to @Tab package

[Valeriy E. Ushakov]

On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 12:27:24PM +0200, P.J. Kersten wrote:

> Jeff Kingston wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > * Horizontal and vertical spanning in arbitrary places in the
> >   table, specified by @Fmt options and probably also on the fly;
> 
> Does this mean we can forget about transitions with this new feature?

Sorry, I probably misunderstand you, what do you mean by transitions here?


> Also it would be nice to be able to disconnect the content offsets in a
> table cell.
> Example:
> 
>      +----------------+--
>      |                |-- C
>      |   Contents     |
>      |                |-- D
>      +----------------+--
>      |  |          |  |
>       A             B
> 
> Changing the size of C right now also changes A, B and D and vice versa.
> In an end-user environment (does somthing like that exist?) this would
> probably ok, but when DTP'ing one whishes more control. Disconnecting
> them, or at least the ability of disconnecting them without changing or
> extending @Tab itself would be nice.

I think it's just a matter of a few new options with sensible
defaulting, e.g. if the [lr]margin is not specified we use hmargin and
ditto for [tb]margin &c.

SY, Uwe
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