Re: [Ql-Users] Tables

2011-01-01 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tony Firshman wrote: Why on earth is there a habit (in C68 as well I expect, dragging back OnT) of not aligning '{' with '}'. I always do. Because aligned braces are just wrong :-D Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List

[Ql-Users] Tables

2010-12-31 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Does anyone know of any software that will convert a html table into auto-spaced plain text? I'm trying to convert some HTML tables into plain text columns for the QL. Most HTML-text converters just put a space between columns in the table, with the result that the text looks awful. It'd be a

Re: [Ql-Users] Tables

2010-12-31 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 31/12/10 12:47, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Does anyone know of any software that will convert a html table into auto-spaced plain text? I'm trying to convert some HTML tables into plain text columns for the QL. Most HTML-text converters just put a space between columns in the table, with the

Re: [Ql-Users] Tables

2010-12-31 Thread Norman Dunbar
each one with spaces), and although I'm sure I could write such a converter, why do so if there's already QL code to do just that? And then you have cells with COLSPAN and/or ROWSPAN to cope with! And table captions :-) Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd

Re: [Ql-Users] Tables

2010-12-31 Thread Tony Firshman
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 31/Dec/10 13:22 | Dec31: each one with spaces), and although I'm sure I could write such a converter, why do so if there's already QL code to do just that? And then you have cells with COLSPAN and/or ROWSPAN to cope with! And table captions ... and mis-configured

Re: [Ql-Users] Tables

2010-12-31 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 31/12/10 13:22, Norman Dunbar wrote: each one with spaces), and although I'm sure I could write such a converter, why do so if there's already QL code to do just that? And then you have cells with COLSPAN and/or ROWSPAN to cope with! And table captions And then the stuff that can't be

Re: [Ql-Users] Tables

2010-12-31 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Norman Dunbar wrote: On 31/12/10 12:47, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Does anyone know of any software that will convert a html table into auto-spaced plain text? I'm trying to convert some HTML tables into plain text columns for the QL. Most HTML-text converters just put a space between columns in the

Re: [Ql-Users] Tables

2010-12-31 Thread Tony Firshman
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 31/Dec/10 14:36 | Dec31: snip ... much like I suppose Superbasic's habit of implicitly adding missing END statements. Yup. Just try throwing some of those programs at SBASIC, it'll soon tell you there's something missing, though not necessarily the correct point in the

Re: [Ql-Users] Tables

2010-12-31 Thread gdgqler
On 31 Dec 2010, at 15:12, Tony Firshman wrote: Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 31/Dec/10 14:36 | Dec31: snip ... much like I suppose Superbasic's habit of implicitly adding missing END statements. Yup. Just try throwing some of those programs at SBASIC, it'll soon tell you there's something

Re: [Ql-Users] Tables

2010-12-31 Thread Dave Walker
-Original Message- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users- boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Tony Firshman Sent: 31 December 2010 15:12 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Tables Why on earth is there a habit (in C68 as well I expect, dragging back