Re: LYNX-DEV LYNX: please say "THIS IS A TABLE!"

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On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, David Woolley wrote:

> > read anyway. One additional feature voud be to swap rows and colums
> > dependin on it if the  relevant items are in same row or column even it
> > increases the complexity of parsing the table. Some indication of cell
> 
> It needs two pass processing, which is the current fundamental obstacle.

Or a large buffer with stacking.  I have an awk script that makes just one
pass, but it has to store everything until the </TABLE> and dump it out
(or dump it into a higher one for nested tables).

www.mich.com/~thomas/ftp  t2tgrnest.awk or something similar.

You *can* do it in one pass, but it is almost as ugly a solution.

But what it *DOES* need is horizontal scrolling since 132 or 160 wide
tables are not uncommon.  They are evil even on GUI browsers since I have
to scroll my peephole over the data.

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