Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
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.
in latex a tabular comes without lines. they are added using \hline (or
variations on this)
moreover, i think that it unlikely that people want the lines as we set
them now and my guess is that most people do what paul does. i do that
as well and i know that those around me who use lyx do the same. (have
you ever seen a table formatted like that in a publication?)
i am sure that the current line configuration wasn't the result of
careful study of common user behavior but more a historical accident
although i agree that having some table styles with a user configuration
would be nice, it is not high on my todo list (well behaved copy/paste
comes before that for example)
in the meantime i think that it is cleaner and friendler to the user to
insert a blank table
