On Monday, 25 August 2008 8:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> There's a small cognitive conflict in that the '==' markup sequence >> is used to mean "heading" in many wiki markups, including Creole. >> This includes table headings (where PmWiki currently uses ||!heading). >> So, I'd prefer a different markup. > >The other option I considered is the underscore: > >||cell text ||___spanning text || >||text|| >||more|| >||aaa ||bbb || > >One advantage of the underscore is that on my keyboard, both the >| and _ characters require a shift, so it's easy to type. >
On the other hand, how many underscore characters is this: ||_____rowspanning text|| A + seems a bit arbitrary and it means bigger in a different context. The * and # denote list markup. The ~ is taken for signatures. But if we eliminate = because it means heading in Creole and others, eliminate _ because they are hard to count visually, and reject _n_ as inconsistent with the normal "repeat n times" convention, I think it leaves the "least worst" as: ||++++text spanning 4 rows|| Any other suggestions? -- JR -- John Rankin _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
