Re: [podwiki] table support

[David A. B. <Br...@ac...>]

On Tue, 4 May 2004, Thomas Linden wrote:

> finally I implemented tables for the POD markup too, it seems to work
> as I expect. The question now is: shall we do this for the WikiShorthand
> formatter too? I'm not sure.

I think so. I've been pondering the issue for a while. I'm not particularly
enamored of the tiki format, although it does have the advantage of having a
definite table start/end mark (unlike the TWiki format, for example). It lacks
the ability to specify attributes, such as header (<th>), alignment, etc. I
used the TWiki format back when I was using that wiki. It was pretty easy to
use. The thing that I particularly liked was that it pretty much did the
"right thing" given a plain text representation of the table, so it was easy
to take tables written in an email (I eschew HTML mail) and plunk them into a
wiki page and they came out looking right. You could go the other way, too.

So, I'm trying to think of a minimal-markup table syntax that still gives
moderate layout control.

I looked at your POD table layout and it looks promising. I'm curious though,
it looks like "row" and "col" are reversed. From the Sandbox page:

=table bgcolor=gree,border=1

=col

=row

blah

=row

blubber

=colback

=tableback

produces (in wonderful ASCII art):

+-------------+--------------+
| blah        | blubber      |
+-------------+--------------+

when I would have expected:

+-------------+
| blah        |
+-------------+
| blubber     |
+-------------+



I'll keep thinking about it.

-- 
David A. Bright
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