Rethink tables syntax

[adius]

I think the ASCII Art syntax you intend to use is not optimal.
It's really cumbersome to write and then I'd actually prefer writing a normal HTML table.
At least then I'd have auto completion and I wouldn't have to match the line lengths all the time to make it look decent. (You can't assume everyone uses / and knows how to use emacs table mode)

How about simple markdown pipe tables: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#extension-pipe_tables
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Maybe support both:
Pipe tables for single line tables (I'd guess 80% of all tables) and grid tables for the remaining use cases.

[adius]

Actually, for multiline I'd prefer https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#extension-multiline_tables

[adius]

The asciidoc table format is also pretty cool. Maybe even the best.

• Never gets too wide
• Powerful
• No need to reformat it as asciiart
• Still quite readable

[alexbiehl]

Adrian, sounds like an alternative for the heavy grid tables. Would you like to try yourself on a PR for a lightweight alternative?

[adius]

Uhm, can do, but my Haskell skills are still a little limited, so no guarantees 😅.
I guess there should be a module among the pandoc dependencies I can use.

[alexbiehl]

Unfortunately haddock/haddock-library is part of GHCs boot packages. Means we may not depend on any package which is not a boot package in order to allow bootstrapping of GHC. Adrian Sieber <notifications@github.com> schrieb am Di., 13. Feb. 2018 um 16:36 Uhr:

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Uhm, can do, but my Haskell skills are still a little limited, so no guarantees 😅. I guess there should be a module among the pandoc dependencies I can use. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#756 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AByiiZrWllYWr3GDR1l_dTFLohsosKJeks5tUawTgaJpZM4SD6Y0> .

[adius]

Well, there's always copy and paste 😅

[alexbiehl]

You could take inspiration from the grid table parser here: https://github.com/haskell/haddock/blob/master/haddock-library/src/Documentation/Haddock/Parser.hs#L288 Alex Biehl <alex.biehl@gmail.com> schrieb am Di., 13. Feb. 2018 um 16:39 Uhr:

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Unfortunately haddock/haddock-library is part of GHCs boot packages. Means we may not depend on any package which is not a boot package in order to allow bootstrapping of GHC. Adrian Sieber ***@***.***> schrieb am Di., 13. Feb. 2018 um 16:36 Uhr: > Uhm, can do, but my Haskell skills are still a little limited, so no > guarantees 😅. > I guess there should be a module among the pandoc dependencies I can use. > > — > You are receiving this because you commented. > > > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <#756 (comment)>, > or mute the thread > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AByiiZrWllYWr3GDR1l_dTFLohsosKJeks5tUawTgaJpZM4SD6Y0> > . >