Re: [O] What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?

[Skip Collins]

It might even be desirable to mix single and multi line cells in the
same row. That would introduce some restrictions on how single-line
cells are edited when they are in a row that contains multi-line
cells. I suppose they could be collapsed onto the first line in the
cell by replacing newlines with spaces. That would also have to be
handled carefully when converting a multi-line cell back to single
line.

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Tory S. Anderson
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I think \ is overloaded for export purposes, but maybe / is clear? I think 
> that's a good idea.
>
> Skip Collins <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> One more crazy idea. What if there were a choice of two vertical
>> separators? Currently '|' is the only character used for this purpose.
>> If, however, something like '\' were used to signal a multi-line cell,
>> then it would be possible to control this feature on a row-by-row
>> basis. As soon as the user replaces one of the '|' characters with
>> '\', all vertical separators in that row also change, converting all
>> of its cells to multi-line text. This has the advantage of being
>> backward compatible and not overloading the horizontal line separator.