"Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
| > Edwin Leuven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > | is that it gets inserted with silly lines
| > Why are they silly?
|
| I think it's generally considered bad form to have many horizontal
| lines, or *any* vertical lines, in a table. I confess that the first
| thing I do after inserting a table is to block the whole thing and
| delete the borders, then typically add just a horizontal line under
| the headings row. So I for one would be happier if tables were born
| naked as babies.
Note that I am not against this change, I just want us to be aware of
implications and have well founded reasons for the change.
That said, IMHO we should make the behaviour in LyX as close as
possible to what you get from using the LaTeX styles/classes manually.
So if LaTeX does not use borders by default, neither should we.
| > | the attached patch gets rid of them
| > Doesn't this change default behaviour that we have had for a very
| > long
| > time?
|
| Yes, although it's default behavior of the interface rather than
| default behavior of the compilation process, if that makes sense.
| (Put another way, it will not affect any existing documents.)
|
| However, perhaps there should be a preference option whether new
| tables are generated with/without lines (say, a check box in the table
| insertion dialog and maybe something that says "remember this choice")?
Something like a user settable default tabular style?
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Lgb
