Hoi,
What you describe is static data, not dynamic data. For dynamic data you
will not have the benefits that you seek.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 1 January 2015 at 14:01, Bináris <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think numbering table rows is a natural need everywhere through the life.
> Not the number of the rows, the number of each row alone, e.g. a ranking.
> Let's have a look at this:
>
> https://hu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magyarorsz%C3%A1g_legnagyobb_telep%C3%BCl%C3%A9sei_k%C3%B6zigazgat%C3%A1si_ter%C3%BClet_szerint&curid=115741&diff=15476065&oldid=15256125
> Do we really need to do this manually, and if a new row is inserted into
> the middle, manually renumber the whole table from that point again? OK, I
> can do some dirty workarounds in Excel (where generating numbers is a mouse
> motion only) if I need, and I definitely would do in such cases for 114
> rows, but I am more educated in Excel than the average of editors. Wouldn't
> it be nice to have a natural wikiconform way, either a {{#}}-like magic
> symbol to the first cell of each row, or perhaps a new class that generates
> a first column by itself?
>
> 2015-01-01 13:49 GMT+01:00 Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>:
>
> > Hoi,
> > The number is to represent what ?? Or do you only want to know the number
> > of records presented ?
> > Thanks,
> > GerardM
> >
> > On 1 January 2015 at 13:40, Bináris <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > 2015-01-01 13:31 GMT+01:00 Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]
> >:
> > >
> > > > Hoi,
> > > > That would be useful when the table is static. When numbers are not
> > > static
> > > > it is only useful for one time usage. Typically it should be possible
> > to
> > > > add numbers for one time usage.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I am afraid I don't understand you. Why is it such a big deal to change
> > > some magic word or symbol to a dynamic row number when rendering the
> > table?
> > > My thought is that MW has to translate wikitables to HTML, thus it has
> to
> > > generate <tr> tags that are countable. Well, rowspan may cause some
> > > headache.
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