[scribus] Tables in 1.5.6svn

John Jason Jordan johnxj at gmx.com
Wed Jan 8 00:43:27 UTC 2020


On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 16:30:05 -0500
Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> dijo:

>On 1/7/20 3:16 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
>> Maybe someone who is Latex-literate could create several dozen tables
>> with code as needed to create the table in a render frame, along
>> with a graphical view of what the render frame will loo like. Click
>> on the graphical view and the code is automatically pasted into the
>> render frame. I imagine that this would be scriptable. All the user
>> would need to do is add or subtract for more or fewer rows and
>> columns. Even a dummy like me might be able create tables in a
>> render frame if the majority of the code is already done and all I
>> have to is ad/subtract. I know a lot of local TeX/LatexL/Lyx gurus
>> who I might be able to inveigle into helping. I wouldn't mind
>> helping to coordinate such a project.
>
>Here is a very basic structure for a table you might plug into a
>Render frame (Context menu: Edit Source) ...
>The {|p{6cm}|p{5cm}|} sets up the columns, in this case the vertical
>lines indicate there will be vertical borders. p{6cm} means that the
>first column will be 6cm wide. the \hline makes a horizontal line --
>for some reason you need 2 of them at the beginning to make the top
>border. \\ is for the end of a row.
>Change the cols argument to {p{6cm}p{5cm}} and eliminate the \hline's
>and you will have a table without borders.

Thanks!

Now if I can find a tutorial on other options for the syntax. Like line
thickness and color, font styles, and lots more. I'll look around the
net - surely I can find something.



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