> On Dec 31, 2018, at 0:26, Alexander Burger <[email protected]> wrote:

>> It could be:
>> 
>> [{ ~{ |{...} |{...}}
>>   ~{ |{...} |{...}}}
> 
> Not a very good idea. It introduces '[' as a new meta-character. Then you have
> to escape it whenever '[' appears in the normal text, and have to document it 
> as
> a special case. It adds complexity and a new syntax concept.

I'm not sure I understand here. If [ comes before { why would it become a new 
meta-character?
Sorry if that's a trivial question.

> BUT: I'm still not convinced that adding tables to the Wiki markup syntax is a
> good idea. It opens a can of worms. You will quickly need more parameters, 
> like
> captions, table headers, column/row alignments, widths and heights, colspans 
> and
> whatnot. Again, we lose the simplicity of the markup language.

You're absolutely right about that :)


Jean-Christophe Helary
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