Re: lynx-dev proposal: rendering tables

[David Combs]

On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 05:38:13PM -0400, Chuck Martin wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 11:25:38PM +0500, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> > 
> >  IMO rendering tables can be greatly imporved with a cheap trick - we can
> > render each cell of the table in separate line, but with different 
> > identation 
> > for each column. Of course, it will take more lines to render the same 
> > table, but will be much more readable. 
> 
<snip>

> Maybe your idea could be
> implemented along with some way of indicating where a table started and
> ended.  That might clarify what was happening when some of those abuses
> caused strange things to occur.

YES!  

   "\n\n--------------------- BEGIN TABLE:\n\n"
   ...
   "\n\n--------------------- END TABLE.\n\n"


David