From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Matej Cepl <mcepl@redhat.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Feature request: HTML table formatting
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:42:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7cf4618960fa46f22c2eb1a2476f172c@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3d529vl3x.fsf@hubmaier.ceplovi.cz>
On Apr 12, 2007, at 14:21, Matej Cepl wrote:
> Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
>> I don't like the idea of another character having
>> special meaning in tables. We would have to find
>> a different way to specify this.
>
> To the presentation of tables I would strongly suggest reading
> http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/booktabs/
> booktabs.pdf
> -- whenever I broke rules set there, I regreted it later.
This is also consistent with what the Chicago Manual of Style
has to say about tables:
13.53 Vertical rules
Vertical rules should be used only to avoid confusion — for
example, when a table is doubled up. Their use between all
columns has long been abandoned.
I do understand the need to group columns visually, so I would be
interested in a syntax to do this. But for the implementation in
an export backend, would prefer spanner heads. Again from the
Chicago Manual:
13.22 Spanner heads
When a table demands column heads of two or more
levels — when related columns require both a collective
head and individual heads—spanner heads, or spanners
(sometimes called decked heads), are used. A horizontal
rule, called a spanner rule, appears between the spanner
and the column heads to show which columns the spanner
applies to. For ease of reading, spanner heads should
seldom exceed two levels.
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-12 13:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-11 23:17 Feature request: HTML table formatting Daniel J. Sinder
2007-04-12 11:20 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-04-12 12:21 ` Matej Cepl
2007-04-12 13:42 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2007-04-12 18:48 ` Daniel J. Sinder
2007-04-13 4:23 ` Carsten Dominik
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2007-04-27 16:09 Scott Otterson
2007-04-27 16:09 Scott Otterson
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