Lex, Am Donnerstag, 8. März 2012 14:07:36 UTC+1 schrieb Lex Trotman: > > 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 > It perfectly makes sense now. I have re-read your answer and retought the entire issue.
> Basically asciidoc uses the terms in the normal common language form. > Changing that would confuse most other users. > I had have wished this to be more clearly in the docs, e.g. with an example more. Thanks anyway, Mike -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/asciidoc/-/L0GyJIDBES8J. 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.
