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Re: Independent numbers of columns for matching groups?



Sven Wischnowsky (wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Yes, I saw this, too, sometimes. The only problem I have with changing 
> it right away is that for groups that don't differ so much I prefer
> having all columns aligned (well, another problem I have with this is
> that it would make {i,comp}listmatches() more complicated, but that
> shouldn't be a reason not to allow this). So maybe we should make this 
> an option are think about some clever way to make it automatically
> decide if the columns should be aligned for all groups or not. That
> would be: if the minimum and maximum number of columns for all groups
> differ only by one (or two? or by `max / n'?), align all groups.
> 
> Maybe we'll just have to play with this (and hence implement it).

Sounds nice.

> This gives me the oppotunity to repeat my question about the other two 
> possible enhancements: Andrej's suggestion to allow matches to be
> layed out in a row-first order

Personally I'm not too bothered but I'm sure some would really like
this.

> and my old LIST_PACKED (see 7590).

Oh yes please!



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