Here's maybe a different perspective on this. What I've been dong in Scribus is a chess magazine (Chess Canada), and the tables on which I spend hours every issue are crosstables of chess events. The approach I've been taking is to have some "template" paragraph styles: for example, one for an eight-player round robin tournament. For a particular event, I copy one of these to get a new paragraph style, and tweak it to fit the data. This is a nice clean approach for simple tabular information. It is not too much trouble to use a combination of different types of tabs (centred, left aligned, etc.) to get the information positioned nicely. Where it becomes a bit awkward is if I want one of the fields in a different font, perhaps italics or bold. Though I may be wrong, my estimation is that this is still easier to do line by line than by using something like the current Scribus tables. Trying to wrestle with a text field for each *cell* looks like overkill. More realistic might be a text field for each *column*. So that's maybe a slightly different paradigm?
Best regards, John (MacPhail)
