[Pmwiki-users] Simple tables in PmWiki2.0
John Rankin
john.rankin
Wed Jun 16 22:02:27 CDT 2004
On Thursday, 17 June 2004 2:56 PM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 01:30:19PM +1200, John Rankin wrote:
>> Suggestion:
>> Extend the simple table syntax to support
>> <th> as well as <td> markup
>>
>> Markup options:
>> ||!this bit is a header!||and this bit isn't||
>
>Would it be better to just use a leading ! instead of both leading and
>trailing !'s? For example:
>
> ||!this is a header||and this bit isn't||
Not sure. The reason I suggested both ends was that if it's too
much like:
!heading markup
some people might expect to write:
||!!this is a bigger header||and this bit isn't||
And because it's part of a markup that's paired || ... ||
it kinda feels as if it ought to close to be consistent.
But either way works for me.
>
>Also, how should left/center/right justification be handled in this
>case? <th> normally centers its contents in most browsers, should
>PmWiki override this whenever the text is against the left margin, or
>only if there are trailing spaces?
>
> ||!no align= attribute|| <th> or <th align='left'> ?
> ||!align=left || always <th align='left'>
>
>My vote is that align=left is only added if the trailing spaces are
>there.
Agreed.
>
>Should the ! travel with the text for centered/right justified contents?
>For example
> ||! align=center ||! align=right||
>versus
> || !align=center || !align=right||
>
>My vote is for the first.
Agreed.
>
>I've implemented a prototype of this markup in the 2.0 development
>wiki--it assumes that trailing spaces are needed to force left
>justification, and that the ! immediately follows the ||. See
>
> http://www.pmwiki.org/devel/pmwiki.php/PmWiki/SimpleTables
>
>Feel free to experiment with it there and provide feedback, suggestions,
>etc.
Excellent.
>
>I like the idea of the caption markup but will consider it a bit
>further before proceeding (plus I need to read up on <caption>
>:-).
>
>Pm
>
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JR
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John Rankin
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