Tarquin wrote:

http://meta.wikipedia.com/wiki.phtml?title=Wiki_markup_tables

I like the look of Tarquin's proposal the best. I do worry that it isn't sufficiently powerful; I have some comments in the talk page already about that (although my specific example may be moot because of other developments). So it needs work, but it looks nice.

-- Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia-l@math.ucr.edu