Nikola Smolenski wrote:
> Дана Sunday 04 October 2009 10:49:02 Amir E. Aharoni написа:
>   
>> And the famous passage in Ecclesiastes 3 is printed in Hebrew Bibles thus:
>>
>> To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under
>> the heaven:                                                  A time
>> to be born,                                              and a time
>> to die;                                                      a time
>> to plant,                                                and a time
>> to pluck up that which is planted;                           A time
>> to kill,                                                 and a time
>> to heal;                                                     a time
>> to break down,                                           and a time
>> to build up;
>>
>> etc.
>>
>> In those Hebrew passages one needs to mark exactly where the longer space
>> should be added and it cannot be defined for all the lines. But except that
>> the positioning can be automatic, more or less like a center-aligned or
>> right-aligned tab in common word-processing software.
>>     
>
> Perhaps the wikisyntax could be || in the middle of the line; this is the 
> same 
> as in tables, therefore easy to remember, and unlikely to appear in actual 
> text.
>
> I don't see what should be the actual HTML that this would produce though.
>   

This is surely an ideal case for using HTML tables, since this kind of 
layout is explicitly tabular.

-- Neil


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