What's the best way to deal with tables

[apastuszak]

The built in table feature isn't really working as well as I would like. And just using tabs in a text column isn't working for me either.

The workaround I came up with after Googling was to design the able in Libreoffice Calc, copy and paste it into LibreOffice Draw, export it as an SVG and import that into Scribus. That works well enough, but is kind of a pain to use. You also can't edit the table in Scribus if you find a typo.

Does anyone have a good workflow for doing tables in Scribus?

In a perfect world, I'd love to just feed an app a csv file, pick a table style and have it just create a table for me.

[MrB]

Unfortunately, we need to do a lot of work on the table functionality to make it really useful. Ideally, your scenario is just one way of making tables, yes.

[apastuszak]

Can you make tables using a script? I'd like to try that, if possible.

And, you're not the only ones with weak table functionality. I have a copy of Affinity Publisher and it's not much better.