> Lex wrote:
> As the Asciidoctor reference says table delimiters are | and at least
3 = a total of at least 4 chars the same as the delimited block
delimiters.

Perfectly stated, Lex. With the exception of open blocks, the minimum
number of delimiter characters is 4. Tables just happen to be unique in
that the first character is different than the rest. Of course, you can
have many more than just 4 characters, so 4 is just the lower bounds.

Cheers,

-Dan

On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 3:58 PM, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Jun 2018 at 02:49, Marco Ciampa <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all ... I'm bit confused here ...
> > writing here because noone seems on line on irc...
> > ... according to asciidoc blocks are (I am looking based
> > the examples ... docs not so clear) |(pipe) ==== (4 same chars) and in
> > asciidoctor examples (like tables) there are only three...
> > which is right?
> >
> > asking here because I have some sources with tables formed of just three
> > chars that the po4a asciidoc parser is unable to parse since it expect 4
> > chars at least...  asciidoc docs specifically talks about 4 or more chars
> > for blocks ... here:
> > http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#X104  "Delimited blocks
> > are blocks of text enveloped by leading and trailing delimiter lines
> > (normally a series of four or more repeated characters)."  why here there
> > are just three?
> > https://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoc-syntax-quick-reference/#tables
> >
>
>
> Asciidoc User Guide Section 16 where the quote above is from is
> "Delimited Blocks".  Tables are in section 23 so the statement in
> section 16 does not apply to tables and also does not apply because
> table delimiters do NOT have all the same character.
>
> As the Asciidoctor reference says table delimiters are | and at least
> 3 = a total of at least 4 chars the same as the delimited block
> delimiters.
>
> Cheers
> Lex
>
>
> > TIA
> >
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> >
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> >
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