[Wikipedia-l] WikiTable implementation

Magnus Manske magnus.manske at web.de
Sat Sep 6 13:18:44 UTC 2003


Steve Vertigum wrote:

> So Magnus,
> The essence is to allow for - to separate a row and
> for } to delineate a column. Very nice idea-- but why
> all the |?
> 
> Since the {| and |} seem to work as starter and closer
> tags anyway, might it work to discard the |?
> {| align=right border=1
> Cell 1, row 1 
> Cell 2, row 1 
> - 
> Cell 1, row 2 
> Cell 2, row 2 
> |}

You can have
  | A single cell
  spanning a long text
  across multiple lines
  that way
  * Nice for numbering
  * which you couldn't do
  * in a single line
  | Next cell

> As always with apologies for my shameful
> benightedness,

Could as well have be me missing something obvoius :-)

Magnus




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