I found it easier resorting to plain HTML and using the CSS elements 
provided by Mohammad's great SHIRAZ plugin.

clutterstack schrieb am Dienstag, 13. Oktober 2020 um 02:04:06 UTC+2:

> I like the marker idea, Charlie. Markdown tables (or wikitext tables) are 
> such a pain to edit that I have been repeatedly quelling an urge to write 
> separate tiddlers for each row of the one I'm writing (documenting for 
> myself which macros do what, and where they live, in a personal plugin). 
> It's so tempting in TW to write a "solution," thereby opening yet another 
> set of parentheses before I finish the task at hand. Right now I'm jumping 
> around between cells, so every time I look for my place I have to put down 
> a new urge to institute a System. :)
>
> ...I actually broke down and wrote the tiddler to generate the table, and 
> one single data-containing tiddler, just to scratch the itch, and went back 
> to trying to maintain my discipline until the job is done. 
>
> Tables are an annoyance in any Markdown environment, but TiddlyWiki is 
> devilish in that you know you could write something on top of it to 
> generate the table you're making, and organize the data while you're at 
> it...
>
> On Saturday, October 10, 2020 at 1:23:38 PM UTC-4 Charlie Veniot wrote:
>
>> G'day,
>>
>> Normally I would entirely agree (I had also thought of using journals), 
>> but in this particular case (for a multi-tracking thing for two power banks 
>> and multiple tests), I wanted the one no fuss no muss tiddler with 
>> everything "right there" so to speak.
>>
>> Sometimes, when wanting to just do something quickly, extra layers of 
>> "fancy formality" overhead just gets in the way. 
>>
>> I prefer keep that good stuff "fancy formality" for when it really 
>> matters.
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, October 10, 2020 at 1:55:06 PM UTC-3, Atronoush wrote:
>>>
>>> Charlie,
>>>  Creating long tables is error prone and boring when you come back to 
>>> edit them. Why do not use a tiddler (look at tiddler philosophy)?
>>> In your case each row can be a tiddler. Every tiddler can have three 
>>> fields: text field, time field and data field
>>> Then simply use TiddlyTables or Shiraz dynamic table to create such a 
>>> long table.
>>>
>>> --Atro
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>

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