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9 months ago After experimenting with how to programmatically convert tables from index.adoc to zlides.md, arrived at the following impressions and solution attempt:
We're often using |=== tables in almost the full diversity that AsciiDoc allows. In particular, we're using multiline cells, sometimes with multiple paragraphs, sometimes with (bulleted) lists. Markdown tables seem to require each row to correspond to one input line.
Given this, for simple tables, it may be best to continue to write slide-intended tables as before even in the AsciiDoc source. The @table line can be safely ignored by AsciiDoc, and this type of (simple) table will work for both AsciiDoc and slides, so they don't need to be written two different ways.
However, for the general table, we still want the more featureful AsciiDoc syntax, while being satisfied with a simpler copy for slides. This is not too bad anyway, since the slides table doesn't have enough space to render in great complexity anyway. To accommodate this, I've added directives @ifslide and @ifnotslide which can be used to wrap tables meant for slides only and those meant for AsciiDoc only respectively. I've also made @table be a no-op in AsciiDoc. (Of course we can use @ifslide and @ifnotslide for other purposes too, not just for annotating tables.)
This should let us write the simple tables once and, in situations where this isn't enough, we are still able to write a more complicated table for AsciiDoc and a less complicated one for slides. What say?
schanzer
flannery-denny
FD
Projects -- RT and ES discussed and agreed that these do not require slides; can use dummy slide ID
RT
ES
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