#14 Simple Tables

[Anonymous]

I would like to have the ability to create simple tables,
not anything near a full implementation of HTML tables.
The only "advanced" feature that would be nice is
borders on/off, but that's about it.
Monika
m.schwarzbach@netzdame.de

[Yonat Sharon]

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We have given this some thought, and came to the
following conclusions:

1. Good tables are going to be hard to implement.
Currently we don't have anyone who needs them badly
enough to implement them.

2. Many of the instances where tables are required will
be better solved by using active content plug-ins. (see
http://www.beofen-tv.co.il/cgi-bin/chiq.pl?
group=eng&title=Active_Content)

3. For simple layout, we implemented automatic
columns -- see http://www.beofen-tv.co.il/cgi-
bin/chiq.pl?group=eng&title=Extra_Formatting_Features
item 6.

[Ori Berger]

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SDF (available in CPAN) has a relatively good way of
specifying tables in plaintext.

The basic idea is that spacing of the first table line (the
header line) determines the column separation; This makes
the table recognizable and readable even without processing.
SDF replaces underscores with spaces in the header line so
that headers can be more than one word.

Documentation for SDF's table filter can be found in: [
http://www.xpenguin.biz/download/sdf/doc/ref/ftable.html ]
- scroll down to the bottom for an example.

A good intro to SDF can be found in [
http://www.xpenguin.biz/download/sdf/doc/paper/sdfintro.html#A%20Sample%20SDF%20Document
] - basically, it uses wiki/chiq_chaq style formatting to
produce super-ultra-professional looking Latex, HTML and PDF
documents (through HTMLDOC or SGML tools).

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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You could implement tables like this... (Line beginning with '*'
in col 1 represents a row separator.)

{{TABLE
< row 1, col 1, left justified
< row 1, col 2, left justified
< row 1, col 2, left justified
*
> row 2, col 1, right justified
> row 2, col 2, right justified
> row 2, col 3, right justified
*
| row 3, col 1, center justified
< row 3, col 2, left justified
> row 3, col 3, right justified
}}