On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Edwin Leuven <e.leu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 9, 2012, at 21:24 , Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: >> The only thing that seems a little inconsistent to me now is that the >> "Set bottom line" button toggles on and off (and the data member is >> set). But then again it's not clear that this is wrong. If you set the >> bottom line and then unset the top line of the cell below, the line >> stays. So in that sense it does serve some purpose (although I'm not >> sure that purpose is clear to the user). In the end, I have no clear >> opinion and I think things work smoothly as is. > > it has been like this since the beginning of (lyx) time > > it would be a good to get rid of such latex idiosyncrasies in the lyx ui > > at one point i was planning to add a linestyle combo to the table tool bar > (and dialog) and remove the superfluous line members > > this would get rid of the ambiguous toggling of line below and line above of > the cell below, and that for the whole row, to get a double line > > i vaguely remember that i could not decide how to store the line info, in the > cells or separately, and after that i got sidetracked…
Interesting. It would indeed be nice to take a closer look at this, but I really do things work pretty well how they are. If you do ever come back to this issue though, let me know and I would be interested in participating (but not taking the lead). Thanks for the insights, Edwin. Scott
