Le 2009-02-26 à 19:54, David E. Wheeler a écrit :
<http://www.justatheory.com/computers/markup/markdown-table-rfc.html>
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Those refinements, in a nutshell, are, simply:
* Implicit cell alignment using space characters, rather than
the explicit formatting hints in the header lines
* Cell content continuation using : for succeeding lines
* Stricter use of space, for proper alignment in plain text (which
all of the MultiMarkdown examples I’ve seen tend to do anyway)
* Allow + to separate columns in the header-demarking lines
* A table does not have to start right at the beginning of a line
Perhaps you should mention that you're now forcing a table cells to be
properly aligned using a monospace font. This in fact makes the syntax
impossible to use in a proportional font context.
While it's true that many people use a monospace font and that in a
text editor you can change the font, I'd like to mention that Markdown
is also used for writing comments and blog posts in textareas not
formatted with a monospace font, and for which it may not be easy to
change the font. Forcing proper alignment makes the table syntax
unusable in these situations.
Now, given that cell continuation using colons relies on that proper
alignment with a monospace font feature (or else you risk mistaking
colons in the text for column separators), I don't find that syntax
very satisfying.
Allowing `+` as column separator in the header underline looks like a
good idea though.
--
Michel Fortin
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http://michelf.com/
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