Suggestion Box

It's frustrating how so many things necessarily move to the next line.

E.g. I can't put a list of names on the left side and an image to their right - the image insists on being on its own line.


How about adding some WritingML to implement very basic tabling.

Nothing fancy. HTML tables are a nightmare, and seem to get more so with each new version.


I suggest only doing single-row tables. If users want multiple rows, they can chain them together. This simplifies parsing significantly.

Only two new WritingML commands (pairs) would be required:
          {table}...{/table}
          {cell:width }...{/cell}           (No space after 'width', of course, but I have to put the space here so that the parser doesn't get confused...)

          width would be either a number, for pixels, or a percentage, between quotes, for a percentage width. (Just like in HTML).

Parsing the WritingML would be easy:
Replace {table} with <TABLE><TR>
Replace {/table} with </TR></TABLE>
Replace {cell:width } with <TD WIDTH=width>
Replace {/cell} with </TD>


Et voila.


LP