From: Jakob V. N. <jak...@gm...> - 2011-01-27 07:47:12
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Hi, For a long time I have been searching for a lightweight documentation format that also are powerful and extendable. For a while I was thinking about making my own format (like a lot of others), but then I discovered the reStructuredText format. I really like the syntax, and the fact that it is easily extended. So, keep up the good work! At my company we have been using the Maven Doxia APT format to write documentation. I have now started to create a converter that converts the apt (http://maven.apache.org/doxia/references/apt-format.html) into ReST. And in that process I have discovered that ReST doesn't support alignment of text inside a table. Or am I wrong? The APT format have the same emacs inspired table syntax. But it has extended it the syntax to support aligment like this: --- From the APT documentation --- The first line is not only used to recognize a table but also to specify column justification. In the following example, the second asterisk (*) is used to specify that column 1 is centered, the plus sign (+) specifies that column 2 is left aligned, the colon (:) specifies that column 3 is right aligned. *----------*--------------+----------------: | Centered | Left-aligned | Right-aligned | | cell 1,1 | cell 1,2 | cell 1,3 | *----------*--------------+----------------: | cell 2,1 | cell 2,2 | cell 2,3 | *----------*--------------+----------------: Table caption ------ Is this something you would consider implementing? Or is it at least something you would consider if I create a patch? Best regards from Jakob Vad Nielsen |