Subject: Re: Re: The Trouble with Tables
Newsgroups: gmane.text.docutils.user
Date: 2005-04-05 22:44:37 GMT (4 years, 12 weeks, 6 days, 23 hours and 16 minutes ago)
[Felix Wiemann]
> What about such a syntax::
>
> .. table:: XOR
> :stub-columns: 1
>
> +---+---+---+
> | | T | F |
> +===+===+===+
> | T | F | T |
> +---+---+---+
> | F | T | F |
> +---+---+---+
>
> Or even::
>
> .. table:: XOR
> :header-rows: 1
> :stub-columns: 1
>
> +---+---+---+
> | | T | F |
> +---+---+---+
> | T | F | T |
> +---+---+---+
> | F | T | F |
> +---+---+---+
Sure, +1.
> I think the different table directives ("table", "list-table",
> "csv-table") basically call for unification into a single "table"
> directive.
+1 on unifying the *implementations* (and documentation). See the
implementation of admonitions for an example.
-1 on unifying the directives themselves. I'd much rather write
.. list-table::
...
than
.. table::
:format: list
...
Think polymorphism!
> Furthermore, it might be useful to have a "rotate" option (not sure
> about the best name yet; maybe "column-wise") which causes the table
> to be rotated, i.e. CSV tables and list tables would appear
> column-wise instead of row-wise.
+1 on "column-wise". That's an already-recorded idea though; see
http://docutils.sf.net/docs/dev/rst/alternatives.html#list-driven-tables
for this one and others. Feel free to update it.
--
David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger>