- From: Michael Smith <smith@xml-doc.org>
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 23:49:46 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-amaya@w3.org
Request for enhancement: Ability to create rowspans and colspans graphically. The ability in Amaya to create and edit tables graphically is an important and powerful feature. AFAIK, it's the only open-source HTML editor that provides this capability. It'd be even grander if Amaya enabled you to graphically create rowspans and colspans. For example, you'd highlight a cell, choose a menu command like "Span [or Merge] Cell to left|right|above|below" or "Split Cell into rows|columns", and Amaya would generate the rowspan and colspan attributes and re-render the table. (Tak Ota's table.el[1]-- an ASCII table editor for Emacs -- lets you create spans that way, and then generate HTML, CALS, TEI, and Latex source.) Or you'd highlight two cells and then choose a menu command like "Span [or Merge] Cells" to merge the two cells into one. I'm not too familiar with current commercial HTML editing tools, but epcEdit, XMetaL, and Arbortext Epic are three XML editors I know that provide the ability to graphically edit tables. (I think Morphon may have added some table capabilities in its latest beta release, but I haven't tried the new version yet, so don't know.) So it'd be great to have a similar feature in Amaya. Regards, --Michael Smith [1] http://table.sourceforge.net/
Received on Thursday, 6 December 2001 03:17:58 UTC