Re: Hacks so I can daily-drive breakinsets3?

Am Freitag, dem 03.07.2026 um 21:00 +0200 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
via lyx-devel:
> I have been fixing stuff in the breakinsets3 branch these days, so
> that the remaining issues are
> - display of labels of floating insets is very basic.
> - cursor positioning is incorrect in bidi documents
> - input methods display may be broken (I trust Koji can fix that)

Looks really good!

> I think it is time for a new round of testing. I need everybody's 
> thoughts on :
> 
> - is it better to have
>    * a label that spills on neighbors

Would be acceptable IMHO, however ...

>    * a label that is removed when there is not enough room
>    * a label that is cut when there is not enough room
>    * some extra whitespace around the insets so that there is enough 
> room for the label. Note that this is (1) difficult to do and (2) can
> be ugly is an inset has a small part on one row and a small part n
> another row and the label is a bit long.

... this would be preferable. This is what we currently have with
"conglomerate" insets. If the label is only given on the longest line
(see below), it doesn't sound more difficult than what we have now (but
it might be, of course)

> 
> - shall the label be
>    * on each line (like now)
>    * on the first line
>    * on the longest line

This (the first longest line, for that matter)

Thanks,

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Jürgen
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