Table Block-mode Syntax Proposal (Followup Hangout #23)

[Skeeve]

Let's brainstorm the Syntax for block-mode tables here (meaning: each cell starts on a new line).

I'm expanding the proposal we had on the hangout, but change it a bit from what I proposed before.

Remember: At the moment we have in a cell:

|left align | center | right align|

We could keep that like so:

||
|left align |
| center |
| right align|
|~
|another cell default left aligned
| another cell where we don't know whether to right align or center
||

giving that, we can also apply our current "h" for header lines or we can even add styles like so:

||.myTableClass
|left align |.mySpecialCellClass
| center |
| right align|
|~.myRowClass
|another cell default left aligned
| another cell where we don't know whether to right align or center
||

[Jermolene]

By the way, here's the details of the WikiMedia syntax for block-mode tables that originally inspired the proposal:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tables

[pmario]

||.myClass   .... start

|!| .. header
|!<| .. h left align column
|!>| .. h right align
|!><| .. h center

|~| .. new row

|><| this text is centered and spans all the columns
||> ... span to the next column
||> 
||> 
|----| .. new row ... alternative 
|>| some right aligned multi line text
with a new line at the end

|.cellClass1 <| ... the cell gets a class and is left aligned ... the class wins.
|.cellClass2 >|
||

|----|

|c| .. caption
|f| .. footer
||  .. end

[pmario]

link to hangout video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKJwcY-gx2g