Proposed table syntax

Chris Purcell cjp39 at cam.ac.uk
Wed Oct 20 18:03:49 EDT 2004


> Doing it with 1 or more tabs leads to a problem if there were empty 
> cells, you'd need to mark a cell as empty, maybe with something like 
> [empty]

Or a space --- tabs == column separator, spaces == empty cell.

(N.B. I generally dislike counting whitespace, but Markdown already has 
a precedent, so may as well use it.)

Chris



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