Table implementation

Here you can write anything to the tables... Ideas, what features we need etc.

What format should be supported?

• copy/paste from OpenOffice
• import from table calculator: Calc, Gnumeric, KSpread
• HTML tables
• txt files with items
• LaTeX

What information should be imported?

• dimension and content of cells
• style (borders, fill etc.) only from OpenOffice copy/paste

Optional

• style (borders, fill etc.) from HTML tables
• otherwise it would be possible to copy/paste from HTML to OpenOffice and then to Scribus

What features we need?

• size of tables
• dimension of table
• automatic/fixed column size
• where the heading is
• automatic split table: yes/no and if heading will be added
• lines: where, color, style, width
• cells: fill (color, pattern, picture or equation)
• operations with cells: merge, split
• operations with rows/columns: delete, add
• optimise: height, width of cells
• make height/width of cells equal
• change size of cell manually
• align numbers according to comma: yes/no
• align of table to: text (other via distribute and align)
• tack to the text => create control system for this
• possibility to create "table style"
• padding: color, width
• delete current fill, style... altogether

Optional

• exchange columns with rows and vice versa
• split table

Table research in other applications

What programs have some table capabilities? It divides into two groups: Office and DTP programs.

Office programs

• MS Office,
• OpenOffice.org,
• KOffice,
• abiword,
• SoftMaker Office.

DTP programs

• Adobe Indesign,
• Quark XPress,
• MS Publisher,
• LyX.

Scribus solution

I found some texts to this feature:

• some info in Scribus wiki
• older bug Table styles in Mantis with User Interface

Inserting table

• icon like now
• via create frame > at the center will be icon with table too (1:40-1:55) here

How will be table stored in Scribus?

In .sla document

• background, lines etc. in SVG
• grouped same type of objects
• Example: background, grouped minor lines, grouped main lines, text
• simply editable when needed
• possible to add to scrapbook

As a Table Style

• predefined specification for all objects
• it consists of text style, line style and shapes/frames
• Example: Main header: top, paragraph style tab1 fill: shape color: none; Normal item: paragraph style tab2 fill: shape color: none; border left: line1 color: black; border right: line1 color: black, border top: line1 color: black; border bottom: line1 color: black;

Missing fatures

• align items according to comma or point directly, not via tabulator
• align text to the internal table grid
• find solution for align of two-line text
• tack table to text with its control system