Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > The table dialog is so broken currently. > > The only issue I see right now is that one cannot set a multirow via the > dialog What else do you see that is not yet also in LyX 1.6.x?
Yes, but this issue is quite tricky. I'm not even sure it is solvable without a complete rewrite of the tabular UI <-> Inset communication (i.e., introduce InsetTabularParams). And it must be fixed for 2.0 of course. Whereas your psoposal is not a musthave, even if it's nice to have. > > I would prefer if we put our energy in fixing that instead of adding > even more features. > > I basically agree without and thus even voted to close trunk for new > features. However this issue is different: > It is embarrassing that we implemented the new feature multirow without > having a real look at its documentation. Implementing features incomplete > is something I often criticized in the past because users who hope they > can now get rid of TeX-code will see that this is not always possible. You know my opinion is different here. I think we can implement a feature without offering a GUI for all its possibilities. I prefer to do what we do right and in small, sane steps, instead of offering as much as possible at once. I had just a first deeper look into the current tabular code during the recent days (where I fixed some issues), and I observed that the new stuff (e.g. the mutlirow code) was not integrated properly in many respects. I really like to have this cleaned up and working before adding even more complexity to the code. > Same critics come usually from the users. As it was my idea to support > multirow I'm responsible for that mistake and therefore want to fix this > missing part of the implementation. Putting this not in right now would > mean that users have to wait another year at least until multirows are > really usable without TeX-code. > Can it therefore go in? > I think I tested the patch carefully and it is moreover rather straight > forward. As said, I would prefer to get the tabular dialog in shape before adding new stuff. But this is just my personal opinion of course. Jürgen
