On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 10:07:46PM -0600, Karl Williamson wrote: > On 04/26/2011 10:51 AM, Allison Randal wrote: > > > >How about adding some modifiers to the PseudoPod tags, such as: > > > >=row center > > > >=row right > > I'm thinking this would mean that the first column in the first row > would be centered, and the first column in the second row would be right > justified, and any other columns would have the default? Is that > correct? Thus for three columns, one could say > > =row center left left > > > > >=cell span 2 > > I would think that it would be better to put the span info on the =row > tag because the =cell tag already accepts text after it, and it is > sufficient to put it on the row tag, like this: > > =row center left span 2 > > denotes three columns, with the final 2 merged.
This is an interesting approach. However, I think it would be difficult to edit tables, especially if one wants to move cells around within a table, because settings that belong to a specific cell would not be placed with the cell. Putting the modifiers on the =cell tag would be much better, except that, as Karl points out, the text following the =cell tag already has meaning as the contents of the cell. Perhaps a new inline character tag could be used to mark these modifiers? =cell J<center> J<span 2> This is a wide, centered cell! (Where J is whichever of the available letters is most appropriate.) Ronald
