From: Simon McVittie Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 17:13:38 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Explain tab-delimited tables a bit better X-Git-Tag: 3.20100403~34 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3c9cd4f156018aea3d10dbf02be529e85c05eb66;p=ikiwiki.git Explain tab-delimited tables a bit better --- diff --git a/doc/bugs/Tab_delimited_tables_don__39__t_work.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Tab_delimited_tables_don__39__t_work.mdwn index 278826ea0..39d57a4fe 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/Tab_delimited_tables_don__39__t_work.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/Tab_delimited_tables_don__39__t_work.mdwn @@ -18,3 +18,5 @@ alpha beta """]] > > So, I think this can be considered [[not_a_bug|done]]? --[[smcv]] + +>> I've clarified the documentation. --[[smcv]] diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/table.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/table.mdwn index 2dac97724..a6692f92c 100644 --- a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/table.mdwn +++ b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/table.mdwn @@ -42,4 +42,9 @@ cells. For example: as the table header. Set it to "no" to make a table without a header, or "column" to make the first column be the header. +For tab-delimited tables (often obtained by copying and pasting from HTML +or a spreadsheet), `delimiter` must be set to a literal tab character. These +are difficult to type in most web browsers - copying and pasting one from +the table data is likely to be the easiest way. + [[!meta robots="noindex, follow"]]