On 10/30/20 7:27 PM, Shay Riggs wrote: > On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 at 22:09, Richard Kimberly Heck <rikih...@lyx.org > <mailto:rikih...@lyx.org>> wrote: > > Hi, everyone, > > We are beginning the process of moving towards the next major > release of > LyX, which will be 2.4.0. Toward that end, we have prepared a > 'testing' > release. Please note that this is very much for testing. We do not > necessarily recommend that anyone use it for daily work, although some > of us do. (Be aware that you may have to deal with some bugs and that > files edited with 2.4.x cannot be opened in 2.3.x without being > exported > to that format.) > > > I’ve been looking at the new table features (xltabular, tabularx…) and > I love the improvements. > > Not sure if this is the appropriate forum for feature enhancements to > v2.4, but I’d love a pair of “suppress column space beforeafter” > tickboxes that put “@{}” before/after the column specifier. > > For example, if I have a table with several columns, one of which is a > “Variable” width column, and then use the “LaTeX argument” field to > override the definition, this triggers LyX into thinking you no longer > want the X (“Variable”) type column any more, and instead of a > “tabularx” table you get a “tabular” (which has no concept of an X > column).
Probably best here to (i) file an enhancement request at the bug tracker <https://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome> and (ii) send a version of this message to lyx-devel. That'll get it maximal exposure. Riki
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