Georg Baum wrote:
If you want progress with this then please think how a configurable system could work. That does not need any coding in the first step. I am almost sure that the result will be based on some GUI for creating the default, and a lyxrc setting or configuration file or template document or whatever where the actual default is stored.
How about adding a new dialog (Table Options) to Document->Settings... The table dialog could let you configure a default table layout by example. (I'm assuming here, perhaps rashly, that it would not be hard to put an adjustable table in the dialog.) Using the same types of buttons currently used on the table tool bar, the user selects the default number of rows/columns and the default borders. The default layout is stored with other preferences.
I'm not sure the best way to store the layout, because I haven't attempted to locate and read the code for changing table specifications.
Letting the user specify the default by example should handle the lack of unanimity on what the default should be. For the people reluctant to change a default, the answer would be to have the default set at installation be what it is now (5x5 fully lined).
Always happy to make work for others, /Paul
