[Pmwiki-users] Re: Need help with markup
Glenn Blalock
gblalock at clearsource.net
Sat Oct 19 10:23:02 CDT 2002
I've followed this discussion with interest. I can't contribute to the
discussion about what will / won't / could / should be the markup you
use for this. However, as a Wiki user, I too find needs for the kinds
of table control this addition would provide. When / how will this be
released / added?
Glenn
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pmwiki-users-admin at pmichaud.com
> [mailto:Pmwiki-users-admin at pmichaud.com] On Behalf Of Patrick
> R. Michaud
> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 2:26 PM
> To: Jessica Tishmack
> Cc: duff at pobox.com; dnr-is at cbi.tamucc.edu; 'pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com'
> Subject: [Pmwiki-users] Re: Need help with markup
>
>
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Jessica Tishmack wrote:
>
> > I don't like this, because ||- ||+ and || seem even less self
> > explanatory
> > than <tr> <td>. I liked your other suggestions, because it's not
> > something the user is going to have to look at the
> documentation every
> > time in order to remember what to do...which will
> discourage them from
> > using it.
>
> Oh, I'm not necessarily wanting people to use it--I think most pages
> are better off without the tables altogether and
> unfortunately there's a *huge* potential and temptation for
> abuse. I've just run
> into a couple of situations where having some sort of large-scale
> table control is really necessary if I'm going to use PmWiki
> as a web-maintenance engine.
>
> Also, from an implementation perspective, I think I'm going
> to have to require that cell markups appear at the beginning
> of a line, otherwise the interactions with other markups just
> gets way too confusing to keep up with. Thus
>
> [[cell]] col 1 [[cell]] col 2 [[cell]] col3 [[endtable]]
>
> won't work--each directive will have to be at the beginning
> of its own line, as in:
>
> [[cell]] col 1
> [[cell]]
> col 2
> [[cell]] col 3
> [[endtable]]
>
> Pm
>
>
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