From: David Goodger [mailto:goodger@users.sourceforge.net]

Moore, Paul wrote:

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I find option (3) almost totally unreadable.

Did you look at this example? It's much clearer:

http://docutils.sf.net/spec/notes.html#bugs

The example in the problems.txt file shows all possible variations in a single small table, so it's bound to be difficult.

Yes, that looks a *lot* better. I think the limitation of not being able to have multi-line cells could be significant, but otherwise it looks reasonable. Depends on what the design constraints are (functionally complete, vs easy to enter, vs easy to read in raw form, ...) I don't have enough use cases to judge on that. I get the impression that functional completeness has been a criterion in previous cases, though. Paul.