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From: | David Rogers |
Subject: | Re: Tables: missing multi-col/row syntax |
Date: | Tue, 03 Nov 2020 18:45:58 -0800 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
TEC <tecosaur@gmail.com> writes:
David Rogers <davidandrewrogers@gmail.com> writes:IMO this can (and definitely should) be regarded as a purely cosmetic problem, to be resolved by purely cosmetic methods. I think the idea that each table cell is exactly one unit of information (and can’t be a collection or array of unitsof information) is more important than this issue.In other words, I think it’s better to ridiculously overload fontification and output formatting, than to sacrifice the main logic of how tables currentlywork. I just don’t believe that it could be worth it.The appearance of the tables is purely cosmetic ... however when one ends up maintaining three copies of the same table, I don't think that dismissing it offhand as a "cosmetic problem" is a productive approach.
I’m not using the word in a dismissive way; I just think fixing the problem “head-on“, solving a display problem by display solutions, is better than disruptively (and permanently) changing the logic in order to improve the display.
-- David Rogers
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