Am Samstag, 6. November 2004 12:42 schrieb Juergen Spitzmueller: > That's great (this one was also high on my personal TODO plan, beneath > tabularx). For 1.5, I'd like to add a "style" selection in the tabular create > dialog and in the tabular dialog itself (options "classic", "frameless", > "elegant" or whatever non-latex name for booktabs there is). > > I think that you should disable vertical lines and add some gui for > \addlinespace. Apart from that, the patch looks very good IMHO.
I like it, too, because booktabs tables aim at high typographical quality. The question now is: What to do with it? This patch does change the file format (although tables with booktabs=true can still be read by unpatched versions, but the latex output is of course different). So it cannot be applied to the official 1.3 unless we do major changes to lyx2lyx. I think it should be applied to 1.4 because it would be a pity to throw this work away, and chances that it breaks something are low. I think that the name "Fancy rules" could be improved. I think that the checkbox belongs rather to the main tab and could be named "Formal table", especially if support for \addlinespace is added. Georg
