On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 05:16:32PM -0400, Bryan C . Warnock wrote:
> I didn't have a good solution for tables, mainly because I didn't like a
> tab, comma, or pipe separated solution. (Which isn't intended as commentary
> on Ziggy.)
Well, a significant portion of what I was working on (50%?) was tables.
The surprising thing is that the simple solution to tables seems like it
solves 80% of the problem with 20% of the complexity. While that may
be the case, that 20% complexity is still pretty high, or the 80% isn't
as big as I thought. When getting into large, multi-row tables, tabs
fall down (and commas get in the way). Spanning multiple lines per row
may help, but it gets very difficult to see exactly how long *one* row
is.
Anyway, this discussion, although interesting, is tangentially related
to QA at best. I got a good response to the ideas behind the paper
at the conference, and I hope to have some modules on CPAN by the end
of the month. The next step is to figure out a QA-ish tagset that can
be embedded (and ignored for document preparation).
Z.
