It might even be desirable to mix single and multi line cells in the same row. That would introduce some restrictions on how single-line cells are edited when they are in a row that contains multi-line cells. I suppose they could be collapsed onto the first line in the cell by replacing newlines with spaces. That would also have to be handled carefully when converting a multi-line cell back to single line.
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Tory S. Anderson <torys.ander...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think \ is overloaded for export purposes, but maybe / is clear? I think > that's a good idea. > > Skip Collins <skip.coll...@gmail.com> writes: > >> One more crazy idea. What if there were a choice of two vertical >> separators? Currently '|' is the only character used for this purpose. >> If, however, something like '\' were used to signal a multi-line cell, >> then it would be possible to control this feature on a row-by-row >> basis. As soon as the user replaces one of the '|' characters with >> '\', all vertical separators in that row also change, converting all >> of its cells to multi-line text. This has the advantage of being >> backward compatible and not overloading the horizontal line separator.
