Hello LyX team, congratulations for been accepted as a mentoring organization in GSoC 2013. I'd like to suggest a feature to LyX, which you and students might find useful:
Reimplement tables on top of the package "cals" http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cals http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/cals/examples/demo.pdf http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb32-2/tb101parashchenko.pdf Formal description: The package allows the user to typeset multipage tables with repeatable headers and footers, and with cells spanned over rows and columns. Decorations are supported: padding, background color, width of separation rules. The package is compatible with multicol and pdfsync. Informal description: the best package to typeset long complex tables. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Oleg Parashchenko olpa@ http://uucode.com/ http://uucode.com/blog/ XML, TeX, Python, Mac, Chess