[scribus-dev] Preparations for GSoC

[Elvis Stansvik]

2011/5/17 Elvis Stansvik <elvstone at gmail.com>:
> Hello Gregory,
>
> 2011/5/17 Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>:
>> On 05/17/2011 07:53 AM, Elvis Stansvik wrote:
>>>
>>> Okay, so a bit of conflicting minds about this. Perhaps I could skip
>>> the growing for an initial version, and if I add them later on make it
>>> an optional feature. I'll await Craig's opinion on this tonight too.
>>>
>>
>> I think we have to consider one of the kinds of feedback we have gotten from
>> users who want better, more flexible tables. They want to be able to easily
>> import contents from some kind of database. Some talk about very large
>> datasets, like catalogues and such. A table might be larger than a single
>> page, so what would happen then? Can a table be broken into sub-tables
>> spreading over multiple pages? What happens when you add a new row in the
>> middle -- can a subsequent row be bumped to the next page? And for that
>> matter, if automatic growing of cells doesn't happen, then surely editing
>> will cause a table to overlap to the next page.
>
> Breaking tables across pages is indeed a non-trivial problem, and was
> taken out of my GSoC project during the review of my project proposal,
> partly for that reason (see [1]). However, I will of course keep in

Forgot footnote:

[1] http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus-dev/2011-March/000871.html

Elvis