On Fri, 2 May 2025 at 23:49, Niall Pemberton <niall.pember...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, 2 May 2025 at 18:52, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Fri, 2 May 2025 at 17:11, Niall Pemberton <niall.pember...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
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> > > On Fri, 2 May 2025 at 09:49, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > Markdown is easy to use for most things, except wide tables, as rows
> > > > cannot be broken across lines.
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> > >
> > > It can be done - I've just simplified the table in projects.md and split
> > it
> > > over two lines. In this case I used the Liquid {%- link %} tag to remove
> > > preceding whitespace (the "-" after the "%" does that).
> >
> > The table that caused me a problem is here:
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> >
> > https://github.com/apache/attic/blob/983591a2e05073cab906c1cf94e627d5c1498fde/data.md?plain=1#L73
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> > Can that be simplified?
> >
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> I've split some of the lines in that table:
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> https://github.com/apache/attic/commit/af451d42e553184c5261c19e787b5d0c77bdcfcf
That makes it easier to read the source, but unfortunately the preview
is mangled, which makes it harder to check local edits.
> Niall
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> > > However, without the need for that link tag, then with Liquid 4.x (which
> > > Jekyll is locked to) its a hack. Would be easier in Liquid 5.x using the
> > {%
> > > echo %} tag, but Jekyll is currently incompatible with 5.x.
> > >
> > > I might add a custom "does nothing" tag, to make this easier.
> > >
> > > So I don't think we need to add another format for content.
> > >
> > > Niall
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> > > >
> > > > Asciidoc allows table rows to be split across lines, for example:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > https://github.com/apache/commons-parent/blob/master/COMPONENTS.adoc?plain=1
> > > >
> > > > Compare that with the previous MD version:
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> > https://github.com/apache/commons-parent/blob/997a7bd3e045ad1651ec4ac9788a66dc3f1b751e/COMPONENTS.md?plain=1
> > > >
> > > > AFAICT it should be easy enough to enable asciidoc.
> > > >
> > > > Sebb
> > > >
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