On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Daniel Winterstein <[email protected]> wrote: > @John: Thank you for pointing me to those table syntax ideas. They are > all sensible, but look like hard work for the user. > > Since there is no standard, I'd like to suggest a couple of > possibilities and get people's comments. >
Well, if I was to implement a table feature, I would just copy PHP's implementation. It's already well documented, in use, and has at least one copy (in MultiMarkdown) with embellishments. Why reinvent the wheel? Oh, and looking at your suggestions, they all look like a bunch of jumbled up randomly spaced text. Yes, I made sure my email client was set to fixed width, but still, my eyes couldn't follow the columns. As JG states, readability comes before writability, so we make the author add in the pipes (more work to write), so the reader can easily read it. -- ---- \X/ /-\ `/ |_ /-\ |\| Waylan Limberg _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
