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:<div class="im"><br><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"></span><br><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Col A | Col B | Col C</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">-------------+----------+---------</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> A1 | B1 | C1</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> a2 contains | b2 | c2</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> some long & : b2 : c2</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> interesting : b2 : c2</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> commentary : B2 : C2</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> A3 | B3 | C3</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br></div><br>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.<br><br>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.<br>
<br><br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br><br><br>I will have to have a look at multimarkdown too :)<br>
<br>Thanks to all who replied,<br><font color="#888888"><br>Simon</font><br> <br>[related proposal]: <a href="http://justatheory.com/computers/markup/modest-markdown-proposal.html" target="_blank">http://justatheory.com/computers/markup/modest-markdown-proposal.html</a><br>
<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:04 AM, David E. Wheeler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@kineticode.com">david@kineticode.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Jun 23, 2009, at 11:38 AM, Michel Fortin wrote:<br>
<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
And here's what I believe you meant:<br>
<br>
| Col A | Col B | Col C<br>
==+=============+==========+=========<br>
1 | A1 | B1 | C1<br>
--+-------------+----------+---------<br>
| a2 contains | b2 | c2<br>
| some long & | b2 | c2<br>
| interesting | b2 | c2<br>
2 | commentary | B2 | C2<br>
--+-------------+----------+---------<br>
3 | A3 | B3 | C3<br>
<br>
Which makes me believe my syntax above using explicit line separators may be better, even though it's much more verbose.<br>
</blockquote>
<br></div>
Yes, Simon's was not quite right. It should be:<div class="im"><br>
<br>
| Col A | Col B | Col C<br></div>
+-------------+----------+---------<div class="im"><br>
| A1 | B1 | C1<br>
| a2 contains | b2 | c2<br>
: some long & : b2 : c2<br>
: interesting : b2 : c2<br></div>
: commentary : B2 : C2<br>
| A3 | B3 | C3<br>
<br>
See also pgsql.<br>
<br>
Best,<br><font color="#888888">
<br>
David</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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