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Hmm, yes. What do the others think?
-- ChristophSauer, 2007-02-27
I agree. I already implemented tables this way.
-- [[Michele Tomaiuolo]], 2007-02-27
I disagree. To be consistent, you need to accept {{{|= cell header =}}} (without trailing pipe)
at the end of a row. Then you have to check what follows {{{=}}} if you want to have a table
like
{{{
|= n=1 =|= n=2 =|
| a+b |a^2+b^2+2ab|
}}}
Unnecessarily complicated.
-- [[YvesPiguet]], 2007-02-28
Right, you need to strip the trailing = even when there is no pipe at the end. Thank you for pointing that out.
But I don't really think it is complicated -- it just one "=?" in the cell-parsing regexp, right?
-- [[Radomir Dopieralski]], 2007-Feb-28
It's one more thing to specify, to explain and to test, while it doesn't add anything.
Trailing equals are more justified in heading for compatibility reasons. But I'd accept to
remove them.
-- [[YvesPiguet]], 2007-Feb-28
I don't think you have to explain it to the users -- on the contrary, it would require explanation if they weren't behaving the same as headings. [[MakeTheMachineWorkHarder]], remember?
-- [[Radomir Dopieralski]], 2007-Feb-28
Come on, Radomir! I remember and I strongly agree with you when you "strongly believe
we should lean" to what you call //The second option// in [[Talk.Make The Machine Work Harder]].
You still do, don't you?
-- [[YvesPiguet]], 2007-Feb-28
Sure, I still do. You might want to note that the second option involves consequent rules and the same mechanisms for similar things. This is an example of inconsequency that should be removed. Since the rule for removing equal signs is cheap but increases chances of adopting Creole tremendously -- the "right thing" is to propagate it also to table headings -- to make them similar.
-- RadomirDopieralski, 2007-Mar-01
Rules so fuzzy that you'd rather not explain them. There would be multiple cases which
would be accepted ({{{|=h}}}, {{{|=h=}}}, {{{|=h=|}}}, {{{|=h|}}}), but of course {{{|==h==|}}} wouldn't
work. If you assume "basic computer literacy" from your users, they won't find that your
rules are "clear".
Anyway, most if not all of them will see the difference between block headings
(separate paragraphs) and table headings (shortcut to format a cell, more or less the same
as {{{|**}}}). If they see that {{{|=foo=|}}} displays a bold cell and can't find any explanation, they
might as well conclude that {{{=}}} is for bold face. Or wonder about the difference between
four different constructs.
If I'm the only one here to prefer simple rules I'd be ready to enumerate, then obviously I'd better
stop, it's hopeless.
-- [[YvesPiguet]], 2007-Mar-1
Rules so obvious that you don't have to explain them. They are not fuzzy -- they say "question marks are stripped from headings". I do assume basic computer literacy from my users -- for example, I expect them to find the key with letter "k" on it in less than 20 seconds of searching. Trying to create markup for totally inexperienced people is doomed to failure.
Most of them will be happy using {{{|**foo**|}}} and won't see any difference. {{{|=foo=|}}} doesn't have to display a bold cell. And people don't immediately jump to conclusions like you describe -- it just doesn't work like that.
I know that finding problems and dealing with them is important. But trying out all possibilities and assuming that "users might do that" is not the right way to find the problems. The right way is to observe users and see what they are really having problems with. We can do that to some extent by just observing ourselves or our friend wikizens, but those are obviously experienced users. We can try to "imagine" an inexperienced user and guess what he will have problems -- by induction from our experiences with inexperienced users -- but this will bring bad judgments and false positives. We can finally ask some inexperienced users to use Creole and look at what they have problems with -- that's what I'm trying to do in [[TheStudentExperiment]] and on several wikis I have access to.
-- [[Radomir Dopieralski]], 2007-Mar-01
Hi, I tried to run the PHP version of creole parser and after much heartache and swearing at yet another unfathomable bit of code it would be easier to write from scratch than use .... I finally got something displaying (how I don't know ...) and whilst most of it is 'acceptable' as output, the tables were frankly pathetic.
The result (after I fixed a minor bug in the parser) with my default browser settings (mozilla) was to crowd the cells with no border into a small huddle in the corner of the page, as if they were a crowd of timid chicks.
After a bit of hassle I put on a style sheet with a border, but still the first words stuck to the table sides like swatted flies.
Having said that, the actual syntax of a table is far far better than wikipedia. I've never yet managed to produce a table there without finding an example to work from.
Here's a few "must haves"
1. Borders on/off
2. Alignment left/centre
3. Cell padding (distance between borders and first character)
4. Minimum cell size.
-- [[Isonomia]] 2007-Apr-??
Just read through the comments and at first I thought {{{|=}}} was a good idea ... until I remembered I never use the <th> tag - why would I?. So I went to look to see what <th> gives you that <td> does not and to be honest I couldn't see anything in the list of attributes. **So as far as I can see any difference between a header and a normal row should have nothing to do with creole ... is is afterall an issue of //implementation// rather than specification about tables**
Let me be clearer. If a user wishes to have a table, then the specification should give them the tools to create that style in the first row: e.g.
{{{
| **First item** | **of a bold** | **centred table**
So I went and looked at the table specification in HTML, and this is the syntax I'm (kind of) suggesting for **every** cell:-
Syntax:
<cell> = <wiki-Text>
<table> = <first_row>{<uline><other_row>}*<uline>
<first_row> = (<table_start>%<row_start>%<cell_start>)<SPACE><cell>{<cell_start><SPACE><cell>{<~><uline>}*}*<uline>
<other_row> = (<row_start>%<cell_start>)<SPACE><cell>{<cell_start><SPACE><cell>{<~><uline>}*}*<uline>
<cell_start> = <|><cell_switches>
<row_start> = <|=><row_switches>
<table_start> = <||><table_switchs>
<cell_switches> = {'<'|'I'|'>'}{'v'|'-'|'^'}{'*'|'/'}
<row_switches> = {'<'|'I'|'>'>}{'v'|'-'|'^'>}{'*'|'/'}
<table_switches> = {'+'|'O'|'x'|'#'}
META SYNTAX
{<opt>} => zero or one repetitions
{<opt>}* => zero or more repetitions
[<opt>] => exactly one repetitions
[<opt>]* => one or more repetitions
(<opt1>|<opt2>) => either one of opt1 or opt2, etc.
<opt1>%<opt2> => At least one of opt1 and/or opt2.
(...) => clarify Meta syntax.
<|> = '|'
<SPACE> = space
<Uline> = end of line
<Text> = any wiki text
<Text> = (<|><table>)|<other-wiki-text>
}}}
Meanings:
# A table starts with a newline followed by a '|'
# If the next character is a ‘#’, '+', 'O' or 'X' the following characters are table switches
#If the next character is ‘=’ the following characters are row switches
#Otherwise anything up to the first white space is considered a cell attribute
# Cells and rows may be left'<' centre'I' right'>' aligned
# cells and rows may be bottom 'v' middle '-' and top '^' aligned
# Cells and rows may be bold’*’ or italic’/’ (bold cell within bold line inverts??).
# tables may come with all '#', outer 'O' with inner '+' borders or excluding borders 'x'.
# Within the table definition a row line ending in a ~ is not considered to be a new row. The reason for this is because many tables contain huge amounts of text and it would not be appropriate to have one row on a single line.
# A line beginning by: || indicates a new inner table... where upon a '|' as the last non-white-space character forces an end to the (inner) table (unless escaped '~|') The result is that a few examples of table would be:
{{{
| 'head' 1 | 'head' 2
| simple | table
|=< cell 1 | cell2
| The above row cells are | both left aligned by the ~|=
|=* Bold 'head' 1 | Bold 'head' 2
| cell 11 normal |* cell 12 is bold
|#* 'Header'1 | 'Header' 2 //table header, inner and outer borders, row bold
| Cell 11 | cell 12
| cell 21 is a very long row of text which is far too long to allow another similar row ~
| cell 22 is another very long row of text which is far too long to allow another similar row ~
|<v Cell 31 is left, bottom aligned |> cell 32 is right aligned.
| cell 41 || Cell 42 is a new table and this is Header 1 inner table ~
| Header 2 inner table
| cell 11 inner table | cell 12 inner table |
| cell 21 inner table | cell 22 inner table is last of outer cell 42 |
| last '~|' jumps out of inner table putting us in cell 51 | cell 52
}}}
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