[daisy] copying/moving lines in a table is very tedious

[Tom Brusselle]

Hi,

We have certain users that have to do a lot of moving and copying of 
lines in a table and between tables.  There are several problems with that:

-moving or copying several lines at once or a column is impossible, the 
only way to do it is one line at a time.  see the procedure below.
-moving/copying lines in a table is only possible in firefox, not in 
internet explorer, because selecting the cells of a line (and not the 
text in the cells) is impossible in IE.
-even when using firefox and moving one line at a time, often the editor 
locks up and refuses to select another line.  The only solution is 
saving the document, and if you have just cut a line you can't paste the 
line back so you lose the line (in that version of the document).
This happens often but not always so this can be a bit tricky to 
reproduce. If you want to reproduce: create a blank document, create a 
blank table (say 4 by 4 cells), type some text in the first line of 
cells.  now select this line, cut, select the second line, paste, 
repeat.  If this succeeds for five times or so, save the document, edit 
the document and repeat.  Of course if you are trying to reproduce 
everything will work fine ;)


The procedure to move some lines in a table is the following:
-- select the line by dragging over the line.  Be careful where you 
start because if the text becomes selected than you must start again, it 
will only work if the tablecells themselves become selected.    (it is 
this step that never works in internet explorer)
-- cut (the content of the cells disappears, the cells themselves do not)
-- remove the empty line of cells by clicking the red "x" button.
-- create a new line of empty cells where you want them by using the 
editor button.
-- select this new empty line of cells by dragging over the complete line.
-- paste (ctrl-V)
-- if this worked without crashing the editor, save
-- edit the document if you want to change another line.
-- repeat for every line you want to move

If you try it any other way, (selecting the text, not selecting the line 
before pasting, trying several lines at once) your table is messed up. 
(meaning you have one line with twice as many cells next to each other, 
or you have a table inside a cell of the main table)

For most regular users this isn't really a problem, but for those who 
have to move several lines several times a day this is really annoying.

I know daisy isn't meant te be used as excell, but is there anything 
that can be done about it?  or are we doing something wrong?

regards,

Tom Brusselle