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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: "Daniel J. Sinder" <djsinder@gmail.com>
Cc: Matej Cepl <mcepl@redhat.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Feature request: HTML table formatting
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 06:23:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a6417c0a26267553cb5e85fbbc4724c7@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <461E7F1A.5070802@gmail.com>


On Apr 12, 2007, at 20:48, Daniel J. Sinder wrote:

>
> I think rejecting vertical rules as a matter of style is a mistake.
>  Whether you consider org-mode tables to be a markup or a
> spreadsheet, it's peers -- HTML, LaTeX, Gnumeric, Excel, etc. --
> will all produce tables with vertical rules if asked to do so.  I'm
> wary of tools that enforce style.  I'd prefer to read the style
> guide and then decide for myself (that is, use it as a *guide* not
> an edict).

Fair enough.

> However, if vertical rules are too clunky, difficult,
> time-consuming, or low priority to implement, that's an entirely
> different matter that I can fully understand.

As I said, I don't want to have a special separator for this,
implementation would be very cumbersome and I'd like
to be able to have ! as a character in a table field.
Maybe something like a special #+FORMAT line above the table
to set special formatting directives.

- Carsten

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-13  4:27 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
2007-04-12 18:48     ` Daniel J. Sinder
2007-04-13  4:23       ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-04-27 16:09 Scott Otterson
2007-04-27 16:09 Scott Otterson

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