[scribus] How do I ungroup / regroup tables?

[Gregory Pittman]

On 1/30/22 07:51, Kevin Cole wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 4:27 AM Craig Bradney <cbradney at scribus.info> wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>>> On 30 Jan 2022, at 01:15, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 1/29/22 17:20, Kevin Cole wrote:
>>>> How do I "ungroup" the cells of a table and then regroup after
>> tinkering?
>>>> Actually, I want to remove the border from the left and bottom side of
>>>> the bottom-left cell of a table and the rather limited documentation I
>>>> found suggests ungrouping and regrouping.
>>>> But, when I select the table, followed by Item -> Grouping -> ..., the
>>>> available options are all disabled.
>>>
>>> Hi Kevin,
>>>
>>> Tables are something that I think has never been very fully developed in
>> Scribus. As of 1.5.8, it seems that any ability to selectively cause
>> individual borders to exist in the parts of a table has disappeared. Item >
>> Grouping doesn't apply to tables.
>>>
>>> Greg
>>>
>>
>> Hi Greg
>>
>> That’s achievable in the properties palette.
>>
>> Craig
>>
> 
> Hi Craig,
> 
> Achievable on an individual cell level?  See attachment. I was trying to
> get the effect shown in the bottom left, without making two tables, and
> aligning them, etc. -- which, now that I think about it, the two table
> solution doesn't sound THAT bad. I was just thinking that individual cell
> formatting would be a thing.

What you might try as an alternative would be to make a collection of text frames, perhaps by using Multiple Duplicate. You can adjust individual frames and borders, and you aren't even committed to an overall rectangular shape. Once you get the effect you need, then you can Group the collection. You can even convert individual frames to image or polygon type.

I can remember that you used to be able to show parts of a border of table cells, but this seems to have disappeared.

Greg