On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 03:33:25PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 08:03:02AM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Any possibility somebody could throw out an example of how it would > > > look spanning a row in an inner column? Is this how it would look? > > > > > > ||text ||span rows ///||column 3|| > > > ||text ||column 3|| > > > ||text ||column 3|| > > > > In my tests, it's this one. Otherwise, in HTML you have to track and remove > > the empty cells being spanned. On the other hand, to generate Wikibook > > XML, you have to insert empty "placeholder" cells. > > > > > > Or would you leave a blank column like this? > > > > > > ||text ||span rows ///||column 3|| > > > ||text || ||column 3|| > > > ||text || ||column 3|| > > > > Arguably, this is clearer, and pmwiki *should* remove the empty > > cells when generating HTML. However, I can't do that so easily as > > a local customisation. > > Indeed, the confusion surrounding the "skips" over rowspanned > cells is part of the reason I never worked too hard to accommodate > a rowspan markup. > > One could potentially come up with a markup that means "skip this > cell in output", as in: > > ||text ||span rows +++||column 3|| > ||text ||+++++++++++++||column 3|| > ||text ||+++++++++++++||column 3|| > > In this case, PmWiki would simply omit the cells containing > only ++'s from the HTML output, or otherwise convert those > into something that is innocuous to XHTML but perhaps useful > to other conversions such as LaTeX or the like. >
Probably of academic interest, but troff "tbl" uses \^ to indicate vertical spanning within the text, or ^ to indicate spanning in the format lines. Rgds, -- Mike Bishop Willow, Alaska _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
