On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:44:46AM +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: > What about this: > > ||cell text ||__spanning text || > ||text ||__more spanning text || > ||more ||__last row of spanning text || > ||aaa ||bbb || > > Here you don't specify the number of rows explicitly, but instead place > '__' on each row that's to be included. To me, the advantage is more > space for the spanning text.
I like this as well, but it has the distinct drawback that the markup engine would have to "look ahead" to determine the number of rows to be spanned and to find the complete text of the current cell, and then remember not to re-render that text in subsequent rows. Doing that might be a bit tricky. > Perhaps tables really require more of a WYSIWYGI approach? I think the > recipe http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/TableEdit improves this quite > a bit. Note that table edit only works with the (:table:)..-markup. As long as the table markup that is produced/consumed is still readable/writable by human editors, I think this approach could be okay. One of the common issues with WYSIWYG editors is that they effectively prohibit non-WYSIWYG approaches. For example, does TableEdit understand (and preserve) all of the table options that might exist in a manually generated table? Or do some of the properties get lost? > (:simpletable separator=";" alignment="llc" :) > Column A ; Column B ; Column C > asfasdf ; asdfasdf ; asdfas > afasdff ; > (:simpletableend:) I like this approach a lot -- I'll have to think about it. It might even be do-able within the existing table markup, as something like: || separator=";" alignment="llc" || Column A ; Column B ; Column C || apple ; banana ; cherry || ask ; Or, perhaps combine separators and alignments in a single format string, allowing the separator to change: || format="l ; l - c" || Column A ; Column B - Column C || apple ; banana - cherry || ask ; - > Perhaps it might even be possible to use multiple spaces as column > separator, thus allowing: > > (:simpletable separator=" " alignment="lcr" :) > Column A Column B Column C ... how would one specify an "empty" cell? > Or perhaps use a tab character. In general it's a bad idea to use tab characters, because (1) they tend to misalign things anyway, and (2) they're invisible in the editor. Pm _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
