[pmwiki-users] proposed markup for rowspan in simple tables

[Peter Bowers]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:50 AM, <john.rankin at affinity.co.nz> wrote:
> ## rowspan in simple tables
> Markup('||==', '>^||',
> ...

And if you include this markup (below) then you are allowed optional "filler
cells" for readability:

===(snip)===
## Allow filler characters of ^^^ or <<< in tables
Markup('||^^||', '<^||||',
    '/\|\|\^+\|\|/', '||');
Markup('||<<||', '<^||||',
    '/\|\|(?:&lt;)+\|\|/', '||||');
===(snip)===

With those lines added in your config.php then this example of row & column
spans which is a bit difficult to decipher:

========(snip)========
||border=1
||aaaa||bbbb||cccc++||
||dddd||||
||abcd||||efgh ||
||Data||Some text++|| A string||
||More||Another string++++||
||Not spanned ||String ||
||Text 1++ ||Text 2 ||
||xxxx||
========(snip)========

Can be expressed in this manner, leaving a much more author-friendly
presentation (needs to be viewed in a mono-spaced font to see how it would
look to an author -- all the vertical bars match up nicely if your email
client treats you nicely...):

========(snip)========
||border=1
||aaaa        ||bbbb       ||cccc++||
||dddd        ||<<<<<<<<<<<||^^^^^^||
||abcd        ||<<<<<<<<<<<||efgh  ||
||Data        ||Some text++|| A string||
||More        ||^^^^^^^^^^^||Another string++++||
||Not spanned ||String     ||^^^^^^||
||Text 1++    ||Text 2     ||^^^^^^||
||^^^^^^^^^^^^||xxxx       ||^^^^^^||
========(snip)========

-Peter
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