Re: [Rlib-users] Text-mode tables with borders in reStructuredText style?

[Bob D. <bd...@si...>]

Hi,

Implementing that would not be too hard.. however, rlib should also draw
the boxes for HTML, and PDF...

Is this something you would like to try to implement your self?? Do you
know c?

- Bob

On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 08:50, Jeff Kowalczyk wrote:
> I'm quite interested in rlib as a reporting library for python. I'm drawn
> to monospaced report output, so rlib output looks ideal to me. I'd like to
> request a feature for rlib's text mode output to be able to add borders to
> rows and columns in the style of reStructuredText. Hopefully this could be
> a style property for easy setting. This convention is expressive,
> regular and doesn't necessarily have to use more character space than an
> unbordered output. Thanks.
> 
> From:
> http://docutils.sourceforge.net/spec/rst/reStructuredText.html#tables
> 
> Two syntaxes for tables:
> 
> 1. Grid tables; complete, but complex and verbose:
> 
> +------------------------+------------+----------+
> | Header row, column 1   | Header 2   | Header 3 |
> +========================+============+==========+
> | body row 1, column 1   | column 2   | column 3 |
> +------------------------+------------+----------+
> | body row 2             | Cells may span        |
> +------------------------+-----------------------+
> 
> 2. Simple tables; easy and compact, but limited:
> 
> ====================  ==========  ==========
> Header row, column 1  Header 2    Header 3
> ====================  ==========  ==========
> body row 1, column 1  column 2    column 3
> body row 2            Cells may span columns
> ====================  ======================
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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