Re: Simplified input for natural tables

[Mohamed Bana <mbana.lists@googlemail.com>]

looks nice.

Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote:
> 
>>>
>>> In the same way as Hans wrote them in his exmple.
>> Cool, but will it be included in context source? Or it is too early?
> 
> I think that such solutions are too fragile. A robust way will be to use 
> a complete mediawiki (or any other markup) parser. It one in lua is 
> available, integrating it to ConTeXt will be easy. If not, we can still 
> have an external file based route. For some time I have been thinking 
> about a module using which I can do
> 
> \definemarkup[RST][command={pandoc -r rst -w context}]
> 
> \startRST
> Write anything here in restructured text syntax here. For example
> 
> - Two syntaxes for tables_:
> 
>   1. `Grid tables`_; complete, but complex and verbose::
> 
>          +------------------------+------------+----------+
>          | Header row, column 1   | Header 2   | Header 3 |
>          +========================+============+==========+
>          | body row 1, column 1   | column 2   | column 3 |
>          +------------------------+------------+----------+
>          | body row 2             | Cells may span        |
>          +------------------------+-----------------------+
> 
>   2. `Simple tables`_; easy and compact, but limited::
> 
>          ====================  ==========  ==========
>          Header row, column 1  Header 2    Header 3
>          ====================  ==========  ==========
>          body row 1, column 1  column 2    column 3
>          body row 2            Cells may span columns
>          ====================  ======================
> 
> \stopRST
> 
> Such a module will also provide a quick and dirty way of writing simple
> presentations. Any takers for writings such a module (basically just 
> copying the R module a bit).
> 
> Aditya
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