Re: [icon-users] Tables bug in Easiwriter?
- From: John Harbour <jh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: icon-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 19:40:46 +0000
Don’t drag the marker icons when the table is selected without first setting
the justification to LEFT. There was a note from Martin Wuerther about a year
ago on this subject.
From John Harbour
Meadowside
40A, Henn Lane
Upper Seagry
CHIPPENHAM
Wilts SN15 5HA
United Kingdom
e-mail: jh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
tel No: 01 249 720 535
mobile: 07 584 030 805
> On 31 Dec 2014, at 11:56, <editor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <editor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> There may be a very logical explanation for what happens in my
> description below but it's been bugging me for a while!
>
> When making adjustments to tables I find if I'm not careful Easiwriter
> behaves in a strange way. Try the following:
>
> 1. Open a new Easiwriter document
>
> 2. Start a table by selecting table icon
>
> 3. Make it two columns wide by one row deep at least (e.g. type "one"
> press <tab> and "two and three and four")
>
> 4. Select the table by clicking menu over the left of the two boxes on
> the top right of the screen which usually read "Text Selection" and
> "Paragraph Style" and choose "Table"
>
> 5. The two boxes now read "Table" and "Table Style"
>
> 6. Select-click on "Table Style" (the right hand box) and, in the
> dialogue box which ensues, deselect "automatic column widths"
>
> 7. Adjust click Table Style and, ***importantly***, click "update" to
> save the changes.
>
> 8. Now select-click on Table Style again. Select "Automatic column
> widths". Deselect it again.
>
> 9. Click OK.
>
> ... the table shrinks to a narrow column in the centre and the right
> column disappears. And it is impossible to adjust the table columns
> without EasiWriter doing weird things e.g. when you drag the right
> marker icon ] it bounces back. I find I have to delete the whole table
> and build it again from scratch.
>
> You could of course be exceedingly careful when adjusting tables,
> going back to a previously saved version of the document when the
> table goes belly up. But that's rather inconvenient.
>
> EasiWriter 9.12 on R-Pi RISC OS 5.21
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> thanks
> Chris.
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