[texhax] Table borders for cells, rows and columns?

[Herbert Voss]

Am 25.05.2011 10:08, schrieb Oleg Parashchenko:

>> like to be able to explicitly set the width, color and dash pattern of
>> each edge (left, right, top, bottom) of each cell ...
>
> while designing the cals package, I thought about how much decorations
> should be implemented. The showstopper is: imagine
>
> one cell wants red dotted 4pt border, another cell wants green dashed 2pt
> border. If these cells are connected, how does the common border look
> like?

the same as for the default cell: every cell has only a right and a
bottom border, except of the very first cell in a line, it also has a
left border and except the very first cell in the first line, it
has a left and a top border.

> I have not found a satisfactory answer. Therefore, cals supports only
> background color for cells and widths for borders.

Herbert