Re: draft new tables chapter available for review

[Pieter J. Kersten]

On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Jeff Kingston wrote:

> I've placed a draft of a new chapter of the User's Guide,
> to replace the old one on tables, on my ftp site for
> review:
> 
>     ftp://ftp.cs.usyd.edu.au/jeff/lout/tbl.ps
> 
> It's not quite complete (either the code or the
> documentation) but it's getting close.  Please let me
> have your comments.  This new table formatting
> package will be part of the next release of Lout.
> The old one (tab) will remain for backward compatibility.
> 
> Jeff Kingston
> 
>

Jeff,

I'm impressed. I expected lout to be up to the task, but I couldn't
imagine to see almost all of my wishes fulfilled. Great job! I only hope
lout 3.13 will be out real soon.

A few questions though: could you include an example of including an
arbitrary cell *background*, lets say an EPS file? Can one tile this kind
of background? Also is it possible to do some fancy shadowing around the
borders? If so, please include an example.

I expect this (besides tiling) to be trivial questions, but it would take
quite some time to figure them out on my own. I imagine that I'm not
standing alone herein.

Many thanks! Lout will soon be a core member of my toolbox.

CU,
-- 
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