Re: Controlling table separators on per-row or per-cell basis
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mojavelinux on
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/Controlling-table-separators-on-per-row-or-per-cell-basis-tp8216p8222.html
I do want to acknowledge and thank you for that ongoing contribution. It definitely helps and was a key reason why we had the resources to launch the AsciiDoc working group and specification effort (which I do hope you will join).
I do think there's a slight misunderstanding about AsciiDoc though. It's definitely not LaTeX and not trying to be. It's intentionally simpler than that to provide a more approachable and user-friendly writing language (yet not as primitive as Markdown). So AsciiDoc is inherently and by design going to have limits.
If someone expects the power of LaTeX, then LaTeX is what they should be using. My opinion is that much of that formatting capability is superfluous and does not actually enhance the content (generally speaking). So the more limited power of AsciiDoc is actually an advantage. It gets the content down to the brass tacks, while at the same time giving plenty of hooks to embellish it when needed. It's a happy medium / best of both worlds kind of scenario.
I hope that makes sense. But now with the working group formed, if you disagree with that assertion and direction...you have a voice to persuade it in a different direction.
Best Regards,
-Dan
On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 3:25 AM oddhack [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion] <
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Well, Khronos is trying to help (at least, I assume our contribution is still happening annually - if not let me know, and I'll pursue that). We are increasingly heavy users of asciidoctor - and as the lead person on asciidoctor usage within Khronos, it's frustrating when new working groups come to me and ask how to do something like this, and all I can say is that practically speaking today, it can't be done. Then they start questioning whether switching over from LaTeX or Word or whatever was really the right decision. Eventually they usually come around as the advantage of a shared ecosystem is significant for us, but it's definitely an adoption barrier.
Jon
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