I was finally inpired by ProWiki’s table feature... I first saw it on Gründer:WikiEngineVergleich. That page features a huge table with many columns, and yet it isn’t too difficult to edit the table. The text formatting rule was very clever.
Oddmuse traditionally doesn’t use brackets and nesting, however, so I felt I needed something slightly different for the beginning and end of the table. I decided to use a pseudo-tag because I’ve been using them for and rules. And to end the table I just use a horizontal line. I’m assuming that it makes no sense to use inside a table cell.
Only after having coded Oddmuse:Long Table Markup Extension did I realize that it allowed me to do block markup inside table cells. Theoretically it would/should be possible to use horizontal lines inside table cells. Oh well. I stuck with the ’!’ end-of-table rule...
Oddmuse:Long Table Markup Extension
I’ll now add CSS support. I think that will give users a better tool to customize the look of their table. The alternative would have been the strategy ProWiki and LaTeX use: Specify [rrrccclll] or something like that at the beginning. Yuck. 😄
Looks pretty cool:
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