WikiShouldOfferSimplifiedUseOfTables

The title in itself is a whole program.

I will try to sketch a proposal for a simple syntax for entering tables.

See MeatBall:TableSyntax (and more pointedly, MoinMoin:HelpOnTables.)

Having just painstakingly worked on Las Vegas/Climate, I can say that I second the proposal for a simplified

use of tables. I looked at the code, and realized that this is an option I can set. So I have for now turned it ON, unless someone comes up with a very good reason why we shouldn't.

The HTML syntax is not too bad, and people can't really do very much evil with it. Edit this page to see how I made this table in html.

A very simple table:

<table border=1>

<tr>

<td>Item one</td>

<td>Item two</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td>Item three</td>

<td>Item four</td>

</tr>

</table>

A little bit fancier table:

<table border=1>

<tr>

<td>Item one</td>

<td>Item two</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td rowspan=2>Item three</td>

<td>Item four</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td>Item five</td>

</tr>

</table>

<table border=1>
<tr>
<td>Item one</td>
<td>Item two</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan=2>Item three</td>
<td>Item four</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Item five</td>
</tr>
</table>