From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: enriched-mode and switching major modes. Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 23:58:16 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200409042358.i84Nwjt19152@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87llfn5ihw.fsf@emacswiki.org> <01c49c75$Blat.v2.2.2$7a37cb00@zahav.net.il> <01c49d70$Blat.v2.2.2$f7cfb860@zahav.net.il> <01c49da7$Blat.v2.2.2$cd5f7160@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1095890325 19612 80.91.229.6 (22 Sep 2004 21:58:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:58:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: boris@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" , emacs-devel@gnu.org, epameinondas@gmx.de, alex@emacswiki.org, eliz@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 22 23:58:32 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CAF8C-0000AG-00 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 23:58:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CAFEC-0003EL-2Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:04:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CAFE4-0003E4-Dx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:04:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CAFE3-0003Ds-RT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:04:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CAFE3-0003Di-Nd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:04:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.41.46.237] (helo=pfepc.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CAF7w-0005TT-IY; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:58:16 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (0x503e2644.bynxx3.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.62.38.68]) by pfepc.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CE382628AD; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 23:58:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:20:43 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:27465 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27465 Richard Stallman writes: > > Is it common practice to use "a caption for a row" in a document? > > Maybe not, but it shows the general concept of what is displayed in > one table cell can be _completely_ unrelated to what is displayed in > another table cell. > > I understand the concept. What I'm getting at is whether it is > important for Emacs to support such tables. All else being equal, of > course we might as well support them. But how important should that > be as a factor in difficult design decisions? It depends on which level of WP functionality (and rendering of e.g. HTML) we want to support in emacs. Once 21.4 is out, we can think more about ways to do this... > > Consider also the example that instead of AAA we have a tall >image, and bbbb ccccc etc is text that is displayed next to that >image like this: > > Hmm, that is important. But it might be easier to support this > with just images than to support this with editable text inside > the box. The cursor would not have to be able to move thru the > image. > For images, we can already achieve this with image slices, but that's a work-around, not a real solution. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk