Hi,

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Anca Paula Luca
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> Vincent Massol wrote:
> > On Nov 25, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Do we want to honor whitespaces in table cells or not?
> >>
> >> The main advantage of trimming them is to get aligned cell symbols.
> >>
> >> See http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Creole1.0#section-Creole1.0-Tables
> >>
> >> Right now we're honoring whitespaces (they are significant).
> >>
> >> If we want to be consistent with normal wiki text we should honor them
> >> since we're honoring spaces in wiki text. However we just need to
> >> agree that it won't be possible to get nicely aligned cell delimiters
> >> then.
> >>
> >> WDYT?
> >
> > One consideration. Right now you have to write the following:
> >
> > |cell1|cell2|cell3
> >
> > this is not very readable IMO compared to:
> >
> > | cell1 | cell2 | cell3
> >
> > However right now since whitspaces are honored if you write the latter
> > you'll get:
> >
> > <td>&nbsp;cell1&nbsp;</td> in XHTML.
>
> Is there any possibility to trim spaces only around the table delimiters
> and
> honor only the spaces inside the text in the tables?
>

I'm leaning towards trimming the surrounding white spaces. One is that it
allows us to align cell elements and the second is they doesn't represent
any valuable information. I mean regardless of the existence of surrounding
white spaces, the output will look the same.

WDYT ?

Thanks.

- Asiri


> Otherwise, I'm pretty undecided, since both sound good (for various
> reasons) I'd
> say to leave it like it is.
>
> Happy coding,
> Anca Luca
>
> >
> > Thanks
> > -Vincent
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