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.)

''Do we support these MoinMoin:HelpOnTables style tables?
Should we?  I don't see a lot of improvement in terms of
ease of use, as against regular HTML.  One of the great things
about wiki, of course, is that people don't need to know much
to get started.  Tables are always going to have some kind of 
learning curve, I suppose.  But we should keep it very simple.''

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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:



Item one
Item two


Item three
Item four





Item one
Item two


Item three
Item four




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A little bit fancier table:



Item one
Item two


Item three
Item four


Item five



 

 

 
Item one
 
Item two
 
 

 
Item three
 
Item four
 
 

 
Item five