Tables are coming!

Post by **admin** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 4:12 am

A new version of Atlantis Word Processor supporting tables is under development.

For screenshots of the new version, please click here.

rstroud · Post by **rstroud** » Thu Oct 01, 2015 1:30 am

This is great news, and I would expect that all users of Atlantis would greet the news with enthusiasm.

I am surprised, in fact, that no one has commented on this announcement.

Pierredetel · Post by **Pierredetel** » Thu Oct 01, 2015 5:00 am

Oh yes, I'm pretty sure we are a great number of very thrilled users of Atlantis W.P.!
Been expecting that for a long time, but you must grant time to time, if you wish for a perfect software!
Thank you to the team in advance!
Pierre

Shan · Post by **Shan** » Fri Oct 02, 2015 7:37 am

Marvellous news! I have been a loyal Atlantis user almost since it began, but this has been a persistent awkward lack. But there were so many other fantastic features and clean design it was well worth it.

I require all my staff and the students in my school to use Atlantis, for compatibility, and its solid design.

The only thing could possibly add anything significant now is a MAC version but I appreciate that's a huge project and may very likely never happen.

WELCOME TABLES!

StewCam · Post by **StewCam** » Fri Oct 02, 2015 8:52 pm

I'm excited that tables are coming. I'm also excited that Christmas is coming. I hope we get tables before Christmas.

Leopoldus · Post by **Leopoldus** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 1:36 am

It's really fine! For me the lack of the tables functionality is one of the two main discouragements which prevents me from moving to Atlantis Word as my main word processor. The second problem is impossibility to work with Unicode file names. Is there a hope to get the solution for this problem too?

cyana · Post by **cyana** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:28 am

Great news

!!! Somehow hard to believe that this glory day has arrived

all the best!
cyana

just2write · Post by **just2write** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 10:53 am

I use Atlantis mainly for its Ebook capabilities, so its good to see it broadening its scope to include Tables. Not sure though if Tables would translate that well as part of an Ebook construct. However, a screen-shot image would suffice if needed.
Thanks
Rom

rstroud · Post by **rstroud** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 3:15 am

Not sure though if Tables would translate that well as part of an Ebook construct. However, a screen-shot image would suffice if needed.

I have not tried tables on an actual device. The various devices do not always behave the same way, and the older ones probably do not support tables. However, people tend to have handheld devices that are more up-to-date than their computers are.

I have created tables in articles and viewed them in the Calibre ebook viewers (.epub, .mobi, and .azw3) and in Sigil (.epub).

In those environments, tables work very well. In fact, they are really impressive. They resize nicely when you resize the screen.

You can create a .docx file in Atlantis, Word, or LibreOffice (free). You can then use Word or LibreOffice to create a table in the .docx file. Be sure to make the table a "relative" size, so that it will resize as needed.

Then use the Calibre (free) ebook manager as follows:

(1) Import your .docx file as a new book.

(2) Convert the new book (.docx) to .epub.

You will have a book with your table or tables in it. You may have to add some «space below» to the paragraph immediately above any table to keep the paragraph and the table from bumping. You can add that space to your original .docx file.

You should get something like this, which is a screenshot of the Calibre .epub viewer. The table in the screenshot is a real table, not an inserted graphic. The table is from some personal statistics notes that I made a few years ago.

You can also tweak your .epub from within Calibre if you need to. However, my experience is that the result is very good.

I actually used a slightly smaller font in the table than what you see. The conversion was not quite sophisticated enough to catch the reduced font in the table. However, you can tweak the CSS file in the ebook if you want, to reduce the font, or you can accept the result as above. It is really good, after all.

When Atlantis has tables, the process will be even simpler, I would think, since you will not have to use Calibre as an intermediate step.

If you want a Kindle file (.mobi), you can use the free Kindle Previewer or the free Calibre program.

emcat · Post by **emcat** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 5:12 pm

Hi rstroud,

I am surprised, in fact, that no one has commented on this announcement.

Oh we commented alright! See the 'feature request' section.

http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en ... highlight=

I'm haunting the betatesting pages.

Best, emcat

rstroud · Post by **rstroud** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 6:28 pm

I was talking about comments on the ANNOUNCEMENT that a tables feature is in the works. Naturally I am familiar with the pleas for tables made here for a number of years.

Post by **admin** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 10:45 pm

More news on the table version of Atlantis:
http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en ... e_coming_2

emcat · Post by **emcat** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 11:21 pm

Thank you for the sweet demo. You're really making progress and the anticipation is building! Thanks for keeping us abreast of developments. Best, emcat

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