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Re: Syntax Proposal: Multi-line Table Cells/Text Wrapping
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Daniele Nicolodi |
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Re: Syntax Proposal: Multi-line Table Cells/Text Wrapping |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Mar 2021 22:02:11 +0100 |
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On 17/03/2021 21:29, Atlas Cove wrote:
> Allow me to give an example of the updated syntax I propose.
>
> ```
> | Name | Description | Price |
> |--------------+------------------------+-------|
> | Orange Juice | Very Citrusy! Very \\ | 5.00 |
> | | nice indeed! | |
> | Grape Juice | It's like wine, but \\ | 6.00 |
> | | you can have it all \\ | |
> | | day! | |
> ```
>
> As you can see, this is a lot more space-efficient than the current, vanilla
> solution, especially if there's a large block of text.
>
> ```
> | Name | Description | Price |
> |--------------+----------------------------------------------+-------|
> | Orange Juice | Very Citrusy! Very nice indeed! | 5.00 |
> | Grape Juice | It's like wine, but you can have it all day! | 6.00 |
> ```
Nitpicking: technically the second table is more space efficient than
the first: in the first table the information is represented in 350
characters, but in just 288 characters in the second table.
Cheers,
Dan