On 8 March 2012 23:16, Michael-O <[email protected]> wrote: > Lex, > > On 1 Mrz., 13:30, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 1 March 2012 19:49, Michael-O <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Hi folks, >> >> > the cell specifier syntax drove me crazy when I realized that it is >> > documented incorrectly. It says: >> > ======== >> > <span> specifies horizontal and vertical cell spans (+ operator) or >> > the number of times the cell is replicated (* operator). <span> is >> > formatted like: >> >> > [<colspan>][.<rowspan>] >> > ===== >> >> This looks right to me, the colspan is the number of columns to span, >> ie the horizontal span, the rowspan is the number of rows to span, ie >> the vertical span. > > Spanning over several columns is spanning over a vertical lane.
Yes and in normal usage span defines the direction of the span, not what it spans over. Its origins are in construction, such as a bridge span (which is horizontal) spans *over* a vertical gorge. The span direction is orthogonal to the thing it spans over. So in asciidoc tables a horizontal span spans *over* vertical columns. For further examples see: 1. most windowing toolkits, horizontal spans span over vertical columns. 2. in printing a "span" is a horizontal element that spans several columns of text Basically asciidoc uses the terms in the normal common language form. Changing that would confuse most other users. Cheers Lex > Spanning rows is horizontal. I cannot follow your explanation. How is > that supposed to sum up? > > Mike > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "asciidoc" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en.
