More continuing text for tables

[Michel Fortin]

Le 2009-06-23 à 0:01, Simon Bull a écrit :


> Thus, text may be continued over any number of lines in a table  

> body, like

> this;

>

>

>   |    Col A    |   Col B  |  Col C

> ---+-------------+----------+---------

> 1 |      A1     |    B1    |    C1

>   : a2 contains :  b2      :  c2

>   : some long & :   b2     :   c2

>   : interesting :    b2    :    c2

> 2 | commentary  |     B2   |     C2

> 3 |      A3     |    B3    |    C3



Are you sure this syntax is so intuitive? I was certain (for about 5  
minutes) that you meant the colons to continue the cell from the  
previous line, not start a new cell, despite the weird result. What  
David Wheeler proposed seem to follow my interpretation. Basically,  
here's what I saw:

   |    Col A    |  Col B   |  Col C
==+=============+==========+=========
1 |      A1     |    B1    |    C1
   | a2 contains |  b2      |  c2
   | some long & |   b2     |   c2
   | interesting |    b2    |    c2
--+-------------+----------+---------
2 | commentary  |     B2   |     C2
--+-------------+----------+---------
3 |      A3     |    B3    |    C3

And here's what I believe you meant:

   |    Col A    |  Col B   |  Col C
==+=============+==========+=========
1 |      A1     |    B1    |    C1
--+-------------+----------+---------
   | a2 contains |  b2      |  c2
   | some long & |   b2     |   c2
   | interesting |    b2    |    c2
2 | commentary  |     B2   |     C2
--+-------------+----------+---------
3 |      A3     |    B3    |    C3

Which makes me believe my syntax above using explicit line separators  
may be better, even though it's much more verbose.

-- 
Michel Fortin
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