On Jun 23, 2009, at 10:24 PM, Simon Bull wrote:
Personally, I would prefer to use exactly one table syntax, so long
as it
_works_.
Yeah, that would be my preference, as well, where _works_ eq is
legible as plain text and parses properly.
Using one pipe per col to span is okay for small
Okay, thanks for your input, David.
Tables with lots of narrow columns are not so rare they can be dismissed;
they are useful for matrices of numbers, for example.
How about an (entirely optional) addition to the existing multimarkdown pipe
syntax, specifically for cells which span many cols? A
I can't say that I find this proposal to be perfect, but to me this was
one of the more compelling emails in this thread.
I have been having my own internal conversation about how to rewrite the
MMD table syntax. My personal goals were to find a way to minimize the
markup, make it more