Subject: Re: Topic: Tables and 1.0
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Mon May 07 2001 - 04:36:29 CDT
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 05:51:59PM +1000, Martin Sevior wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 6 May 2001, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm confused. Why are number of rows/columns tracked in the
> > table, but their size is in the cell? And is this size the CURRENT size or
> > the defined size (ie. if the user said that he wanted a cell width==20%,
> > what gets stored - the 20% or the actual resolution of that value)? And if
> > that info is in each cell, that potentially means a LOT of iterating of
> > cell data to compute cursor, etc. locatons.
> >
>
> Yeah. It's proabablly better to put that in the table definition.
That might make the table definition really big. What if the table
looked like this?
.........................
. . . . .
. . . . .
...... ..............
. . . .
. . . .
.........................
. . . .
. . . .
.........................
And so on, repeated for many pages. The table definition would be
huge.
Any ways around this?
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