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In article <1992Aug17.054623.1080@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>  
tlm@nextasy.physics.mcmaster.ca (Tom Marchioro) writes:
> But this raises an interesting point:  there is *one* NeXT app which  
might
> do a lot of what you want (particularly once 3.0 arrives) and that's
> EquationBuilder.  Although it's designed to be a GUI equation driver
> for the NeXT it's matrix facilities also allow you to make certain types
> of tables.  Best of all, the output is pure EPSF and can be reopened and 
> edited.  (the hard part with EqB would be things like putting boxes  
around
> the entries, captions, etc. but this might be  done by dropping the  
finished
> product into, say, Diagram!).  Grab the EquationBuilder Demo from sonata
> (it's in 2.0-release/demos I think), install it, bring up the Help panel
> and read document 09Tables.rtfd for a description of how to use the  
matrix
> facilities to make a table  (it would be fairly easy to make most of  
what
> you posted).
> 
> Best --- Tom

Before people get too excited, EqB wasn't really designed to do tables and  
hence, doesn't do them very well.  We were unsure we should even mention  
it in the docs.  The only reason we did so was that there seemed to be no  
better tool available.

That having been said, we have been toying with the idea of fleshing out  
our Matrix class so that it can form the basis of a legitimate table  
editor (TableBuilder?) that does all the wonderful things that one would  
hope for.  The only question we had was whether there really was a need  
for this sort of thing.  Comments, wish lists, PO's??? :-)

Ray Ghanbari                                
Digital Tool Works
ray@dtw.com