Re: How can one put a table into a pod

[Karl Williamson]

On 04/23/2011 11:53 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:

On Apr 23, 2011, at 10:09 PM, Karl Williamson wrote:


I was thinking that PseudoPod implemented most of what might be needed, and so 
why not ship that.

Its table spec looks quite simple, and perhaps sufficient.


+1


However, in thinking about this some more, I think we need to be able to 
at least specify centered column headings, and spans.  This is easily 
done with html and tbl.



tbl's is also pretty simple; it allows, without my looking at the 
documentation, at least columns that have justification of left, center, and 
the default 'alpha' which is essentially left, but I can't remember the 
difference, and numeric, so the decimal points line up.  You can also create 
spans, and bold, etc.


I expect one can use B  and friends within PseudoPod tables, yes?

I do think we should keep Pod as Pod; troff is something else entirely.


The other specification I'm familiar with is html, and it offers far more power 
than needed.


Yeah, and one can always =begin html to do that.

Best,

David

Re: How can one put a table into a pod

[David E. Wheeler]

On Apr 25, 2011, at 8:09 PM, Karl Williamson wrote:

 However, in thinking about this some more, I think we need to be able to at 
 least specify centered column headings, and spans.  This is easily done with 
 html and tbl.

But they'er not Pod, are they?

Best,

David

Re: How can one put a table into a pod

[David E. Wheeler]

On Apr 25, 2011, at 8:39 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:

 Yes, but my assumption is that the discussion here is about inventing POD
 syntax to represent tables natively, and to do that we have to figure out
 what the requirements are and confirm that it's viable to convert such POD
 tables into our most common output formats.  Which is what I was assuming
 that Karl was doing.

Oh, okay. I'll STFU then.

Best,

David