From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha•warpmail.net>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com>
Cc: wmpalmer@gmail•com, Jeff King <peff@peff•net>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFD: tables in documentation
Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 21:23:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BDDD14C.7040503@drmicha.warpmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100502175353.GA15521@progeny.tock>
Jonathan Nieder venit, vidit, dixit 02.05.2010 19:53:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Michael J Gruber wrote:
>> Michael J Gruber venit, vidit, dixit 02.05.2010 17:08:
>
>>> Further experimentation (editing the xml) indicates that with my
>>> toolchain, I can either shut off all borders (between cells as well as
>>> outer) or none.
> [...]
>> For completeness, it results in this:
>>
>> I H M Result
>>
>> 0 nothing nothing nothing (does not happen)
>>
>> 1 nothing nothing exists use M
>>
>> 2 nothing exists nothing remove path from index
>>
>> 3 nothing exists exists, H ==M use M if "initial
>> checkout", keep index
>> exists, H != M fail otherwise
>>
>> [Same unealt rowspan issue, of course.]
>
> For what it’s worth, except for the broken last row, I like this and
> find it readable. It is too bad there is no way to make it more
> compact so more rows can fit on a screen or page.
>
> The ideal, to delimit the header without appearing busy, would be to
> just have a thin horizontal rule separating the header from the
> remaining rows[1]. Vertical rules are almost never a good idea.
> Maybe frame="topbot",grid="none",options="header" would be a good
> approximation.
That looks nice in HTML (and produces the correct xml), but
unfortunately my docbook renders this as if I had frame="all",grid="all" :(
>
> Jonathan
>
> [1] Just my opinion. I probably learned the aesthetic from Simon Fear.
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=destable
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-02 19:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-01 18:37 RFD: tables in documentation Michael J Gruber
2010-05-02 5:06 ` Jeff King
2010-05-02 13:31 ` Michael J Gruber
2010-05-02 14:43 ` Will Palmer
2010-05-02 14:51 ` Will Palmer
2010-05-02 15:08 ` Michael J Gruber
2010-05-02 15:27 ` Michael J Gruber
2010-05-02 17:53 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-05-02 19:23 ` Michael J Gruber [this message]
2010-05-25 9:46 ` Jeff King
2010-05-25 11:59 ` Michael J Gruber
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