Re: How can one put a table into a pod

On 04/23/2011 10:13 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Apr 23, 2011, at 6:38 PM, Karl Williamson wrote:
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>> That explains how to do it.  Thanks.  I would like something like this for the core Perl 5 documentation.  Are there reasons besides inertia for this to not be shipped with the Perl core?
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> Tuits. If you or someone else would like to propose an addition to perlpodspec for tables, I'm sure discussion would be welcome here, and we could come to some consensus on how it should work. Then it's a SMoP.
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> Best,
>
> David
>
>

I was thinking that PseudoPod implemented most of what might be needed, 
and so why not ship that.

Its table spec looks quite simple, and perhaps sufficient.  tbl's is 
also pretty simple; it allows, without my looking at the documentation, 
at least columns that have justification of left, center, and the 
default 'alpha' which is essentially left, but I can't remember the 
difference, and numeric, so the decimal points line up.  You can also 
create spans, and bold, etc.  The other specification I'm familiar with 
is html, and it offers far more power than needed.