Re: [icon-users] Borders in Tables

Martin

> You can put a border around each of the paragraphs in a section (by
> selecting "Section body") or around the whole section (by selecting
> "Section"), etc.

That's an interesting case I hadn't thought about.  If you apply a border
to 'Section body' it is applied to every paragraph within the section body,
and within any list that the section may contain.  That doesn't seem quite
logical for two reasons:

First, a section body isn't quite like Table body, because it can be
interpreted in two different ways. 
 
1 - The part of a section that isn't the heading.

2- The components contained within that part.

The current implementation assumes the second, so there is no means of
putting a border round the body of a section.  

Second, the next level structure below a section may be a paragraph (which
is what the current implementation of Section body attributes assumes) or
it may be something else, say a list or a figure.  

In these cases, it would be logical to apply the section body attribute to
these next level objects, but the current implementation doesn't.  In the
case of a list, instead of putting a border round the list, it puts it
round each of the list's paragraphs, and in the case of a figure it doesn't
put one round either the figure itself or around the paragraph contained in
the caption.

These do seem to be inconsistencies in what is otherwise a consistent and
logical model.  Maybe worth thinking about at some point.  For example, if
you ever implemented paragraph numbering, as someone requested a while ago,
that is clearly an attribute that should not just roll through to the
paragraphs of any embedded lists.

Regards

-- 
John Harrison
Website http://jaharrison.me.uk
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