Re: How can one put a table into a pod

On 04/23/2011 11:53 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Apr 23, 2011, at 10:09 PM, Karl Williamson wrote:
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>> I was thinking that PseudoPod implemented most of what might be needed, and so why not ship that.
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>> Its table spec looks quite simple, and perhaps sufficient.
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> +1

However, in thinking about this some more, I think we need to be able to 
at least specify centered column headings, and spans.  This is easily 
done with html and tbl.
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>> 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.
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> I expect one can use B<>  and friends within PseudoPod tables, yes?
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> I do think we should keep Pod as Pod; troff is something else entirely.
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>> The other specification I'm familiar with is html, and it offers far more power than needed.
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> Yeah, and one can always =begin html to do that.
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> Best,
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> David
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