[pmwiki-users] Simple table grid with single character cells

[Pico]

Any interest in writing this, or at least giving me some hints how I 
might approach it?

Disclaimer: I've never coded any php, but I can read enough to hack my 
way out of a small paper bag.  Given the modest requirements set forth 
below, the code could be child's play, or fun, or both (or neither).

Questions:

1. How would I code a markup rule to create a table where each cell is 
only one character (or stated conversely, where each character occupies 
its own cell)?

2. Can that code be incorporated to work with simple tables?

Markup:

Assume a markup delimiter of three pipes ||| to start (and end) this 
special grid-table rule.  (It could be anything else, but a variation on 
existing simple table markup seems reasonably intuitive to use and code).

Examples:

1. Instead of writing this (using the existing simple table markup)

||1||2||3||A||B||C||a||b||c||-||+||=||^||_||

I want a new markup markup that would let me achieve the same result as 
above by simply writing the following:

|||123ABCabc-+=^_|||

2. Incorporated to work with simple tables, I want to generate the same 
results as these:

||Description||1||2||3||A||B||C||a||b||c||-||+||=||^||_||
or
||1||2||3||A||B||C||a||b||c||-||+||=||^||_||Description||

By simply writing the following:

|||123ABCabc-+=^_|||Description||
or
||Description|||||123ABCabc-+=^_|||

What do you say, any takers (or, more precisely, givers)?

Pico

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