[Wikipedia-l] Proposal for table syntax

[Brion VIBBER]

koyaanisqatsi at nupedia.com wrote:
> tarquin wrote:
>>The key details are:
>>* one cell per line (and not one row per line)
[..]
> 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?

That's one cell per line of *markup*.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)