Sounds like someone's opinion to me. Depending on the type of document,
audience, etc., they should be perfectly acceptable and serve distinct purposes
(as your example implies). I don't recall ever seeing rules on their use in
my grammar book either... :)
Kenward
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 10:54:54PM +0200, Matej Cepl wrote:
...
> make me confused. The author seems to be rather
> radical and quite strange to my taste. Would be
> willing and ready knowingly comment on his two
> doctrines?
>
> 1) You should NEVER (literarily) use vertical
> rules in a table.
>
> 2) You should NEVER (nearly) use double rules in
> a table.
>
> The second issue doesn't bother me, but the
> first one seems to me quite strange. What about
> following table?
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> |head head2 head3
> ----------------------------------------------
> 1st item | data data2 data3
> 2nd item | data data2 data3
> 3rd item | data data2 data3
> 4th item | data data2 data3
> ----------------------------------------------
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