Re: [Gzz] Summing up...

[Benja Fallenstein]

Tuomas Lukka wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 12:56:27PM +0200, Benja Fallenstein wrote:
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> > The problem is that the connections assume that (1,1) transforms to the 
> > lower right corner of the rectangle, but with (w=2, h=2)-- or 
> > (w=1,h=1)--, it's still the ul corner, just one or two pixels away.
> >    
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> Wait, now I don't understand. Could you explain the problem in more detail?

Hm. I don't know how.

Ok, another example. Let's say we have a cell with the bounds (x=100, 
y=100, w=50, h=20). This used to be our coordinate system, so if there 
was a connection downward, it would be anchored at (x+w/2, y+h) = (125, 
110). Nowadays our coordinate system is (x=100, y=100, w=2, h=2), so the 
anchor point will be at (x+w/2, y+h) = (101, 102)-- for practical 
purposes, the upper left corner of the cell.

Does that help?

> > What do you think about my proposed mechanism to do paragraphs?
> >    
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> The extra cell on some dimension?
>
> That's one alternative. I'm not sure at all what's the best way.
> Sometimes I think just two enters next to each other would be good - 
> we've been getting into lot of trouble over putting too much 
> into the ZZ structure, maybe trying the other alternative
> wouldn't hurt.

Hm. Seriously, I don't think that "don't put data into zzstructure, it's 
bad" is a sane philosophy for this project. We *have* also gotten into 
trouble over not putting enough into zzstructure (e.g. cell existance).

I really think paragraphs should be visible in zzstructure for 
rearrangement. Also, there's the point (as in this case) that you often 
(but not always) want a cell that doesn't start/end in a linebreak to be 
its own paragraph in the containment structure. And there's the problem 
of paragraph styles: if you mark paragraph breaks through characters, 
where in the enfilade do you store the paragraph style? Esp. since there 
is one paragraph break less than there are paragraphs.

- Benja