-- FritzBosch - 04 Dec 2001

IMHO one of the serious limitations in the current table implementation is the inability to format the content of a cell.

The TWiki syntax for tables breaks down when the contents of any given cell contains a new-line character, e.g.

• in
• a
• list

A possible solution is the introduction of a syntax extension for multi-line cells, e.g. by enclosing the cell content between '<|>' and '</|>' i.s.o. simply placing it after '|'.

| *foo* | *bar* | *foobar* |
|more foo <|>
---+++ TWiki formating inside cells

IMHO one of the serious limitations in the current table
implementation is the inability to format the content of a cell.
<|>
The TWiki syntax for tables breaks down when the contents of
any given cell contains a new-line character, e.g.
   * in
   * a
   * list

<|>
| even | subordinate | tables |
| are  | possible    |    !   |  
 |x |y |

-- FritzBosch - 27 Nov 2001

Sorry, I'm just sort of "piggybacking" here, but if changes are made to the TWiki markup for tables, I'd like to vote ( ) for providing a method of specifying column width in the TWiki markup.

Or, for a way to allow a line or two of HTML table tags to precede the TWiki table markup and affect the table layout. The intent would be to allow adding a line of HTML table tags to specify the column widths for a table created using TWiki markup.

I've now created a new topic, TWikiMarkupForTableColumnWidth.

-- RandyKramer - 28 Nov 2001