Subject: Re: support for Tables
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Oct 16 2000 - 17:48:26 CDT
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
>
> No, I don't think so, though it is strictly row-based (this may not be a bad
> thing when using a WYSIWYG application for editing).
>
> Also, HTML (or rather the XHTML tables module) includes elements for table
> headers ('tbody') and footers ('tfoot'). These should be supported. For example,
> table headers and footers should be repeated on the top/bottom of each printed
> page the table spans (MS Word does this), and should not be sorted when sorting
> columns (we'll need a sort feature too for this!).
>
> This is what I mean. We should define what features we want from a table
> implementation, like table headers/footers, nice table "styles" (like the
> autoformat feature in MS Word), &c. If anybody's interested, I can write up a
> simple requirement specification which we can discuss.
>
This would be great! I'm not a big user of tables in WP's so I don't
really know what we need.
> >My opinion is that what is important is to design the data format
> >for the Tables, the rest is just coding.
>
> Yes.
>
This is at least a requirement before we start.
Martin
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