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What I really want is a tabular format the enables formatting to be interpolated between sections of data with a clean separation of structured data and formatt
by nicoburns 3y ago
What I really want is a tabular format the enables formatting to be interpolated between sections of data with a clean separation of structured data and formatted human-readable content. It would need a new editor of course, but I reckon it could be popular if that editor was good.
- bradrn 3y agoThis sounds interesting, but I’m not sure I understand your proposal fully… what do you mean by ‘interpolating’ formatting?
- nicoburns 3y agoParticularly in a business context, I find that spreadsheets often need a bunch of supporting data that exists outside of the main tabular content: headings, introduction paragraphs, legends, etc. I would like a way to visually combine that with the tabular data while keeping the too distinct in the underling format such that: - Constraints (e.g. type or format constraints) could be applied to the tabular data - The non-tabular data is free-form word processor style It would also be be useful to be able to combine multiple tables with the same visual page.
- bradrn 3y ago> combine multiple tables with the same visual page In fact, this is why I asked — I’m actively working on an program which allows just this. In theory, it should be sufficiently flexible to allow for the kind of markup you mention… one more thing to look into!