Proposed table specification (long!)

[David Parsons]

On May 14, 2011, at 6:08 PM, Simon Bull wrote:


> Michel and Dr.Dang both commented that it is easier to author/edit  

> tables as HTML than as aligned text.

>

> I am not sure I personally agree with this, but assuming that it is  

> true for some significant part of the authorship, then I would like  

> to add:

>

> In my original post I stated my belief that the needs of the  

> _reader_ come before the needs of the _writer_.  I don't agree that  

> the needs of one author outweigh the needs of five hundred, ten, or  

> even just two readers.  The writer may well be inconvenienced once  

> by having to align text into a table, but the *readers* are in  

> inconvenienced n many times by having to read tables of HTML.


    I presume that the readers will be reading the
entire document in html, via a viewer that renders
html into a more pleasing format.


    -david parsons