Hello Thomas, In reply to your comments...
Yes, I have assumed mono-spaced (or equivalent) rendering throughout. Comparing examples 1.1 and example 2.3.b, yes you are correct. I need to update the description given for 1.1 (the so called "compact form"). The compact form (without blank lines or rules between rows) will always result in a single table row with multiple lines per row. However, it would be possible to also specify a "single line per row" interpretation if that is a desired feature. Your comment re: "line breaks" versus "blank lines" is also taken on board. Thanks for your valuable comments, Simon On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Thomas Humiston <[email protected]>wrote: > Notes from a writer who makes occasional light use of Markdown and is not > involved in implementations at all (nor especially familiar with other -down > table syntaxes): > > I view my plain-text emails in a proportional font (Verdana). Simon's > tables look ragged that way, but readable and not terribly unpleasant. > > Such decoding of occasional monospace-intended bits is, in my view, a > fairly conventional matter in email, and thus congruent with Markdown's > inspiration. Perhaps the matter of mono vs. proportional is not such a > bugbear after all, at least for small-to-medium tables (and for the rest, > there's always HTML). > > But wait -- Given 2.1.b's handling of empty cells, it seems the proposal > still assumes some degree of monospace involvement. Similarly, 3.1.a speaks > of omitting a space-denoted column break from "between" two columns, a break > that is "between" in a sense (either visual or numeric) that's likely > obvious in monospace only. > > So in the proposal, colspans do depend on character counts, and thus on > monospace writing tools (except in tables simple enough for manual > counting). Well, I suppose most authors of Markdown texts use such tools > anyway. > > A confusing bit for me: Section 2.3.b leaves me thinking that the compact > form is usable only for single-row bodies, and NOT for, say, "three rows and > three columns" as indicated in Section 1.1. Also, I'd suggest instructing > authors to use "blank lines" as Gruber does instead of "line breaks" (as the > latter connotes carriage returns and/or newline characters). > > - TH > > > > Simon Bull wrote: > > ~~~~~ >> >> >> ----------------------------------- >> THE PEOPLE OF MIDDLE-EARTH >> ----------------------------------- >> >> People Homeland Tongue >> =================================== >> Elves Rivendell, Quenya, >> Mirkwood, Sindarin, >> Lorien Nandorin >> >> Dwarves Erebor Khuzdul >> >> Hobbits The Shire, Westron >> Breeland >> >> >> ~~~~~ >> >> _______________________________________________ > Markdown-Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss >
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