- From: Irene Vatton <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr>
- Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 18:15:38 +0100
- To: Michael Smith <smith@xml-doc.org>
- Cc: www-amaya@w3.org, Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr
Hi Michael, Thanks for your suggestion. We'll work on that as soon as possible, but unfortunately it won't be available in the next release planned by end of the year. > 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/ > > > > >
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