Re: More continuing text for tables

2009-06-24 Thread David E. Wheeler
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

Re: More continuing text for tables

2009-06-24 Thread Simon Bull
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

Re: More continuing text for tables

2009-06-24 Thread Fletcher T. Penney
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