New Tables have arrived!

A couple of weeks ago I blogged about implementing the rowspan table model in the Writer core (see ' too complex to merge'). Now I'm back with some good news: It's done. Have a look at this screenshot:

In case you suspect me having faked this screenshot, I'd recommend to convince yourself by installing the recent developer snapshot . Of course we took care not to break compatibility with old documents: Tables containing subtables (which have been created by old versions of OpenOffice.org) will still be handled as such.

So get it, install it, test it! Feedback is very much appreciated, either by submitting a new bug or by using the Writer team mailing lists.

tags: openoffice.org writer

Comments

JZA said: This is a great advance in OOo-MSO compatibility however I wonder how much does the XML suffer from this table merging. I'll follow this development.

Posted by JZA on April 16, 2007 at 11:57 PM CEST #

Frank Meies said: Hi JZA, I'm sorry but I don't understand what you mean by "how much does the XML suffer"? No changes have been made to the file format, we just implemented rowspans in the Writer core. Regards, Frank

Posted by Frank Meies on April 17, 2007 at 06:11 AM CEST #

Marty said: Hi Frank,
Great to see this - but I can't get at it!
I followed your link but was brought to the download page for build OOF680_m15 (installing as OOo-Dev2.2). After downloading, it seems that this doesn't have the new tables.
After a bit of poking around, it seems that the previously announced snapshot is the one I'm after going by the release notes I found (SRC680_m207 installing as OOo-Dev2.3.).
Would you mind telling me how to get at previous snapshots? Hopefully I haven't missed the boat...
Thanks again,
Marty

Posted by Marty on April 18, 2007 at 02:26 AM CEST #

Frank Meies said: Hi Marty, thank you for your interest. The new link is http://download.openoffice.org/SRC680/index.html Frank

Posted by Frank Meies on April 18, 2007 at 11:01 AM CEST #

Marty said: Hi Frank
Thanks! I've downloaded it and the new tables seem to work great! This feature is going to be very useful to me, I've a project that was hanging for it...
Again, thanks for all the hard work,
Marty

Posted by Marty on April 19, 2007 at 12:13 AM CEST #