[Wikipedia-l] Proposal for table syntax

[Jan.Hidders]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 01:17:11PM +0100, tarquin wrote:
> 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:
> ||
> | Name
> | Bill Clinton
> ||
> | Musical instrument
> | saxophone
> ||
> 
> It's *long* in raw form, yes. But it's also clean.

As I also suggested on the talk page of

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

why not something more WYSIWIG, like:
* [| starts a table rule
* |] ends a table rule
* consecutive rules belong to the same table

Like

[| Name               || Bill Clinton  |]
[| Musical instrument || Saxophone     |]

-- Jan Hidders