WikiShouldOfferSimplifiedUseOfTables

The title in itself is a whole program.

I will try to sketch a proposal for a simple syntax for entering tables.

See MeatBall?:TableSyntax? (and more pointedly, MoinMoin?:HelpOnTables?.)

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Having just painstakingly worked on Las Vegas/Climate, I can say that I second the proposal for a simplified use of tables. I looked at the code, and realized that this is an option I can set. So I have for now turned it ON, unless someone comes up with a very good reason why we shouldn't.

The HTML syntax is not too bad, and people can't really do very much evil with it. Edit this page to see how I made this table in html.

A very simple table:

Item one	Item two
Item three	Item four

A little bit fancier table:

Item one	Item two
Item three	Item four
	Item five

 <table border=1>
 <tr>
 <td>Item one</td>
 <td>Item two</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td rowspan=2>Item three</td>
 <td>Item four</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>Item five</td>
 </tr>
 </table>