So, you want an unordered list of tables, right? But what, exactly, makes that different from a single table? You'll have table rows stacked upon each other either way; the only difference would be getting rid of the bullet things, which doesn't strike me as particularly bad in this context.
It will also make the wiki source more readable.
Magnus
David Friedland wrote:
I was experimenting with the table markup on test and ran into a situation which I didn't seem to be able to solve using the table markup.
There is a page I have been working on [[List of words of disputed pronunciation]] onto which I have put pronunciations in IPA and SAMPA. The way I have them now is just one after another, separated by nubers in parentheses (as a label for each pronunciation) and commas.
After some discussion on talk, it seems there needs to be different versions of each pronunciation, IPA vs. SAMPA, AmE vs. BrE, etc. Such a matrix of pronunciations is tabular information perfectly suited for a table. Unfortunately, each word is in an unordered list (lines starting with *) and the syntax for those lists requires all text for each item be placed on one line. Thus it seems impossible to mix the wiki syntax for unordered lists and for tables.
So:
(1) Should there be a way to mix lists and tables using wiki syntax? (2) Should a different approach to organizing this page be taken?
I suppose it would be possible to put everything in a giant wiki table, but that would be using tables for layout and not for just tabular information, which seems like the wrong approach.
- David [[User:Nohat]]
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