[Wikipedia-l] Proposal for table syntax

[tarquin]

Since Wiki markup often ignores single \n, my proposal could be modified 
to *allow* several cells per line.
However, I think the following is easily graspable:
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| Name
| Bill Clinton
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| Musical instrument
| saxophone
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It's *long* in raw form, yes. But it's also clean.

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| Name| Bill Clinton
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| Musical instrument | saxophone
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This is good too, but there's more work involved in finding the limits 
between data. One could use spaces to set it out nively in raw form -- 
but then if the data changes the spaces change. It's a bit faffy.

I think my motivation stems on part form the rapidly growing table of 
phonemes on the SAMPA page.

koyaanisqatsi at nupedia.com wrote:

>That also decreases the usefulness considerably.  One *cell* per line?  You couldn't organize data in columns--you couldn't have a piece of information with an explanation immediately beside it of what the information is, the way we have on the U.S. Presidents pages, the countries pages, the various tree of life pages....  You must have meant two, at least?
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