Re: Feature request: HTML table formatting

[Scott Otterson <scotto@u.washington.edu>]

I'll agree with Daniel that sometimes, it's useful to have vertical 
table separators.  Here's how I kind-of do it:

| asdlfj |   | alsjfdas |
|--------+---+----------|
| alsdjf |   | aqsljf   |
| asdljf |   | asldjf   |

This is visible enough inside of org-mode and it yields a widish gap in 
exported html -- it's a horizontal screen space waster, though.  I 
suppose one way to denote a vertical separator without adding an extra 
symbol would be to allow tables in org-mode that look like this:

| asdlfj || alsjfdas |
|--------++----------|
| alsdjf || aqsljf   |
| asdljf || asldjf   |

The exporter could then detect '||' and convert it to a vertical html line.

Scott
> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 06:23:16 +0200
> From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
>
> 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