More continuing text for tables

[Simon Bull]

My apologies, I didn't read David's post correctly.  After looking at it
more closely, I agree with the previous posts; a leading pipe followed
vertically by trailing colons is much better than the other way around, so
it should have looked like this:

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


Explicit row markers do _work_, but they are too verbose for my liking.
They are more work to write, and don't read as cleanly.  The colon syntax
_works_ too, and it is cleaner, and I think having a source document which
is natural to write, and easy to read is important.

All that aside, it is support for the continued text *feature* that I am
most interested in.  If I have to live with explicit line breaks, I guess I
will.  But it would seem a shame, given the alternative.


Regarding David's [related proposal][] for the use of tildes '~' for
definition lists, I was also going to suggest adding tildes to support
definition lists within tables, but I backed off from that in my original
post so as not to cloud the central issue; continued text in tables.

However, I strongly agree that the tilde could be used in for definition
lists, thereby removing the ambiguity between colons used as cell delimiters
and those used in definition lists.


I will have to have a look at multimarkdown too :)

Thanks to all who replied,

Simon

[related proposal]:
http://justatheory.com/computers/markup/modest-markdown-proposal.html




On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:04 AM, David E. Wheeler <david at kineticode.com>wrote:


> On Jun 23, 2009, at 11:38 AM, Michel Fortin wrote:

>

>  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.

>>

>

> Yes, Simon's was not quite right. It should be:

>

> |    Col A    |   Col B  |  Col C

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

> |      A1     |    B1    |    C1

> | a2 contains |  b2      |  c2

> : some long & :   b2     :   c2

> : interesting :    b2    :    c2

> : commentary  :     B2   :     C2

> |      A3     |    B3    |    C3

>

> See also pgsql.

>

> Best,

>

> David

>

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