On Wednesday 27 June 2007 13:26:12 Lars Oppermann wrote:
> I think it would be possible to define a table style property in ODF,
> which specifies, that a surrounding cell border becomes the outer
> border for a nested table. I am unsure whether there is realy a
> requirement for such a feature as rowspan/colspan can be used to
> achieve the same visual result.
Hmm, not sure if this mixes very well with the "Collapsing border
model" [1]
In this model the border should be 50% in the one cell and 50% in the
other cell. Which will get very complex and weird with the suggested
model as the underlying model gets abused quite a lot if it has to do
what the user expects. That is; act like the B1 actually has a colspan
of 2.
We should accept that when the user actually means to use colspan/rowspan
from a user interface perspective we should make the tools to handle that
more intelligent so its not too cumbersome compared to subtables.
Altering the fileformat to allow a workaround (the subtables structuring)
to be saved seems wrong in my book.
1)
http://testsuite.opendocumentfellowship.org/testcases/FormattingProperties/TableFormattingProperties/borderModelProperty/TestCase.html
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Thomas Zander
