[scribus-dev] Tables GSoC - Weekly Report #7

[Gregory Pittman]

On 07/20/2011 06:28 AM, Elvis Stansvik wrote:
> 2011/7/20 Elvis Stansvik<elvstone at gmail.com>:
>> Hi all,
>>
>
> snip.
>
>> * Did some aesthetic improvements to the handling of case 14 and 15 in
>> the border joining: When four borders meet at a cross and they can
>> join pairwise, it looks much better if the thicker of the two pairs
>> win the conflict. So we separate the two cases 14 and 15 into 14A,
>> 14B, 15A and 15B. I think our handling of these cases are now more
>> graceful than InDesign's. The picture of all the cases on the wiki has
>> been updated, as well as the test script that tests them all.
>
> Thought I better explain this with some pictures, since maybe it's a
> little confusing what I really mean. The attached pictures shows the
> new case 15A rendered in Scribus and InDesign.

I agree with your assessment, but I would hope that users don't create 
such ugly situations. Yours just seems the least ugly choice.

Having too many line styles in a table is a lot like having too many fonts.

Greg