Looking in another direction, and this is what I favour, we use backslashes to join lines and force new lines. (see http://pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/TextFormattingRules#Paragraphs) (it is unfortunate we use the same character for both, but lets go for it as an idea) So
||span with next row \|| ||span with next two rows \\|| ||span with next three rows \\\|| This does have a similar flavour with ||span with next column |||| ||span with next two columns |||||| cheers Simon or perhaps we could use a forward slash if it is not too confusing 2008/8/25 John Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > -- http://kiwiwiki.co.nz _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
