There is already a feature request for a simple wiki table format on Sourceforge at: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=584459&grou...
Here is the idea:
<wiki table, center, thin line> |{light blue} ^ '''Mailing label''' ^|/ |Name: |John Doe |/ |Address: |2000 Main Street |/ | Postal Code: |123456 |/ </wiki table>
NOTE: ^ would signify that the text between should be centered and / would signify the end of a row. I'm not sure if this would be possible, but it would be nice to also have spaces after the | and before the
text to be the same as in an HTML table.
Would render the same as:
<table align="center" border="1"> <tr> <th colspan="2" bgcolor="lightblue">Mailing label</th></tr> <td>Name: </td><td>John Doe </td></tr> <tr> <td>Address: </td><td>2000 Main Street </td></tr> <tr> <td> Postal Code: </td><td>123456</td></tr> </table>
The above wiki table seems a lot more intuitive to me than either the HTML table or the other wiki table syntax proposals.
--mav
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On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Daniel Mayer wrote:
<wiki table, center, thin line> |{light blue} ^ '''Mailing label''' ^|/ |Name: |John Doe |/ |Address: |2000 Main Street |/ | Postal Code: |123456 |/ </wiki table>
I think this looks really ugly, and if I were a computer novice, I would reel. Do we seriously need to define colors? We haven't needed color in any of the text, why should we need it in tables?
Alignment is possibly a concern, but things like "thin line" just looks useless. Face it, if Wikipedia will ever become a slick and nice looking site, it will not be because the article authors can define layout and form - it will be because someone can use the separated-from-form content in a novel/slick manner.
If one need to show a color, why not use a picture?
I liked the idea posted earlier here,
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-- Daniel
Daniel Mayer wrote:
Here is the idea:
<wiki table, center, thin line> |{light blue} ^ '''Mailing label''' ^|/ |Name: |John Doe |/ |Address: |2000 Main Street |/ | Postal Code: |123456 |/ </wiki table>
The above wiki table seems a lot more intuitive to me than either the HTML table or the other wiki table syntax proposals.
actually, that idea isn't very different to mine. * different tokens -- but my tokens were just examples * there's information about the row in the row -- mine had all formatting info contained in the head
I think they're minor differences
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