On Nov 25, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote: > Hi devs, > > Currently in xwiki syntax 2.0 we are using > || title cell 1 || title cell2 > | cell 1 | cell 2 > for table syntax. > > The problem is that with this grammar it's impossible to have empty > cells because you can't use || as it mean title cell. > > Creole is using (see > http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Creole1.0#section-Creole1.0-Tables): > |= title cell 1 |= title cell2 | > | cell 1 | cell 2 | > > I propose to change our current || by |= meaning the difference with > the Creole syntax will be just that we don't need the ending |: > |= title cell 1 |= title cell2 > | cell 1 | cell 2 > > - we generally agreed to use Creole as much as possible > - this syntax support space > - this cell header syntax is more consistent with our header syntax > (which is the Creole one ok ;)) > - I think it's more readable than the current one because it's easier > to differentiate header cell and cell especially when there is lot's > of them > > So here is my +1
+1 Do we want to offer an alternative syntax for people using a keyboard that doesn't have the pipe symbol? I propose: != for headers !! for cells since ! is the closest character to | WDYT? Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
