Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] colspan/rowspan for tables?

|| is overloading current markup? How to differentiate between
my 'empty' cell and your colspan?

Is there a way to use meta markup?

id the table, id the row then the colspan (start / end)
  Perhaps steal the Xpath syntax for this?

Is CSS capable of doing this?

Just ideas.

HTH Dave



On 22 March 2016 at 18:57, Maurice van der Pot <gri...@kf...> wrote:
> My colleagues and I have been creating some tables for which a rowspan
> feature would have been useful, but unfortunately it's not supported by
> the current syntax.
>
> Before looking into writing my own extension, I wanted to ask you if
> you're open to changes in the existing tables extension to support
> colspan and rowspan.
>
> The syntax I had in mind uses adjacent pipes for signalling colspan and
> underscores for rowspan, e.g.:
>
> |col1        |col2    |
> |------------|--------|
> |colspan example     ||
> |rowspan ex. |        |
> |__          |        |
> |blah        |blah    |
>
> The second (or third, etc) adjacent pipe characters are currently
> ignored and do not lead to the creation of additional cells. The above
> example would currently have a single cell on second row that was as
> wide as the cell containing "col1". Only when there's a space in between
> the pipes will an additional cell be created. So for colspan I expect
> the change would not break a lot of documents.
>
> The syntax for rowspan could be in use at the moment, but the chance of
> breaking existing documents can hopefully be kept small by choosing a
> syntax that requires the cell to contain only underscores and spaces and
> optionally (to be more strict) requires the underscores to be on the
> first and/or last character position in the cell.
>
> Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the matter.
>
> Best regards,
> Maurice.
>
> --
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