On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
||cell text ||__spanning text ||
||text ||__more spanning text ||
||more ||__last row of spanning text ||
||aaa ||bbb ||
I like this as well, but it has the distinct drawback that the markup
engine would have to "look ahead" to determine the number of rows to be
spanned and to find the complete text of the current cell, and then
remember not to re-render that text in subsequent rows. Doing that
might be a bit tricky.
Another drawback is if you wish to place two twospans on top of each
other. :-( So something more might still be required.
recipe http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/TableEdit improves this
As long as the table markup that is produced/consumed is still
readable/writable by human editors, I think this approach could be okay.
I definitely agree on this.
For example, does TableEdit understand (and preserve) all of the table
options that might exist in a manually generated table? Or do some of
the properties get lost?
I loses some of the properties I believe, but I see no reason why it
couldn't retain them. In other words, it's not feature complete. A version
based on JavaScript and perhaps also AJAX would probably improve the
experience quite a bit. For instance, it's very cool how the google
calendar allows you to just click in a cell and start writing.
(:simpletable separator=";" alignment="llc" :)
Column A ; Column B ; Column C
asfasdf ; asdfasdf ; asdfas
afasdff ;
(:simpletableend:)
I like this approach a lot -- I'll have to think about it. It might even
be do-able within the existing table markup, as something like:
|| separator=";" alignment="llc"
|| Column A ; Column B ; Column C
|| apple ; banana ; cherry
|| ask ;
Or, perhaps combine separators and alignments in a single format string,
allowing the separator to change:
|| format="l ; l - c"
|| Column A ; Column B - Column C
|| apple ; banana - cherry
|| ask ; -
I like this version, but it's probably not so easy to understand. However,
prefixing each line with '||' is a bit of a annoyance -- it's no longer
possible to just paste the table from an external source.
Perhaps it might even be possible to use multiple spaces as column
separator, thus allowing:
(:simpletable separator=" " alignment="lcr" :)
Column A Column B Column C
... how would one specify an "empty" cell?
That's certainly a problem. I have no answer, but maybe could
be used to mark an empty cell?
Having written some posts on this subject now, I think I'm leaning towards
the following:
* Add mechanism to convert between different types of table markup styles.
* Aim for a reasonable table editor in the core. It's important that
the editor doesn't destory parts of the table markup that it doesn't
recognice. It'd be ok if it can only work with (:table:) if it's
possible to convert.
* Add mechanism to control alignment on a column basis. This is
for ||...||-tables as well. If cells in the table need a different
alignement, this should be done with e.g. %left% in the cell.
Best regards
/Christian
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
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