[Table-request] Re: CALS table support?

[Tak O. <Tak...@am...>]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for using table.el and giving the feedback.

Any request that has good reason to implement is welcome.  It sounds
like there are many users who benefit by implementing CALS support.
So I'll work on it.  There are two conditions I'd like to ask you.


1. Please be a beta tester and QA of the CALS implementation since I
know very little about CALS.

2. Give me some time before the first beta.  This week and next week
is quite hectic for me including trip to overseas.


Regards,

-Tak

__________________________ Original Message __________________________
Subject: CALS table support? 
Author:  Michael Smith (sm...@xm...)
Date:    06 Dec 2000 19:26:16 -0800
> 
> Tak, 
> 
> First, thanks for coming up with table.el -- great piece of work.
> 
> A couple of questions:
> 
> 1. Any plans to add support for generating CALS tables?
> 
> The CALS model, if you're not familiar with it, goes like this:
> 
>     <table>
>       <title></title>
>       <tgroup cols="2">
> 	<tbody>
> 	  <row>
> 	    <entry></entry>
> 	    <entry></entry>
> 	  </row>
> 	</tbody>
>       </tgroup>
>     </table> 
>    
> That's just about the simplest example possible. For a more complex
> example, look at this from the DocBook guide:
> 
>   http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/docbook/chapter/book/table.html#AEN114751
>    
> A sample rendering follows the example.
> 
> 
> 2. How much work would it be to add support for CALS tables? I am very
>    glad to help any way I can should you decide to add CALS.
> 
> I work much with XML (mostly in DocBook, which uses the CALS table
> model) using Emacs/psgml mode. One of the very few things psgml
> -can't- do that some other editor can is graphical table editing.
> 
> Using psgml in conjuction with table.el+CALS would really help DocBook
> users create tables much more quickly and easily.
> 
> Any thoughts on adding CALS to table.el? -- Yes, no, maybe?
> 
> Regards,
> 
>   --Mike Smith
> 
> -- 
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