Re: How can one put a table into a pod

On Apr 23, 2011, at 10:09 PM, Karl Williamson wrote:

> 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.

+1

> 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.

I expect one can use B<> and friends within PseudoPod tables, yes?

I do think we should keep Pod as Pod; troff is something else entirely.

> The other specification I'm familiar with is html, and it offers far more power than needed.

Yeah, and one can always =begin html to do that.

Best,

David