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Subject: Re: What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?
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I think \ is overloaded for export purposes, but maybe / is clear? I think that's a good idea. 

Skip Collins <skip.collins@gmail.com> writes:

> One more crazy idea. What if there were a choice of two vertical
> separators? Currently '|' is the only character used for this purpose.
> If, however, something like '\' were used to signal a multi-line cell,
> then it would be possible to control this feature on a row-by-row
> basis. As soon as the user replaces one of the '|' characters with
> '\', all vertical separators in that row also change, converting all
> of its cells to multi-line text. This has the advantage of being
> backward compatible and not overloading the horizontal line separator.