Re: Tabular environment in HTML

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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 11:52:03 -0600
From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Message-id: <9303291752.AA09083@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
To: timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch (Tim Berners-Lee)
Cc: Nathan.Torkington@vuw.ac.nz, www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: Tabular environment in HTML
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Tim Berners-Lee writes:
> Tabular work is, accordingto the experts, a can of worms.  However,
> it is important.  It is definitely not in HTML, but a good
> discussion is definitively in order.  Tables in practice need all
> kinds of things (joined cells, break lines, etc) A lot of work has
> been done, it needs to be brought together and written up.
> 
> Pointers, anyone?

As I mentioned to Nathan in private email, maybe just doing a
reasonable clone of the LaTeX table functionality would be a good way
to go.

Marc