Kuba Ober wrote: > Since some time I'm contemplating implementing booktabs a.k.a. tableaux > support for 1.3.x. Would that have a chance to go in, if properly done? > I.e. are any new features allowed into 1.3.x? I might have asked that > before, but have forgotten the answer since :) *
I'm not the one to decide this, but I think there are no (major) new features allowed for 1.3.x. Why not code it up for 1.4? [1] > I'm thinking of adding a per-table "Book-style table" checkbox which will > limit what you can do to the table - i.e. no vertical lines, as well as > adding support for top/mid/bottom rule and cmidrule. Since this would > rather trivially extend the file format keeping it 100% upward compatible, > it needs a `cat`-style up-lyxconvert, and a reasonably trivial > down-lyxconvert which I'm willing to write as well - I'm thinking it would > simply downgrade the "nice" rules into obnoxious "standard" ones. My opinion: booktabs support would be great (I use nothing else for tabulars). Of course, additional tabular*, tabularx and tabulary support would be great too. I think, a good way (ui wise) would be to extend the tabular create dialog: let the user chose a tabular "style" in the first place (and let her alter it in the tabular dialog). Jürgen. [1] If you need booktabs tabulars in lyx: you know that there are some ERT tricks to use booktabs within the lyx tabulars?
