[TxMt] Spreadsheets in Textmate

[Brad Miller]

On Apr 21, 2006, at 5:14 PM, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:

> That could probably be arranged, and it is definitely a good idea.  
> Markdown would work well with it.
> My conventions so far are that spreadsheet lines start with  
> anything (though that could be changed to "|" since that is the  
> separator), "command" lines start with % and comments with #. I  
> guess I could change it so that spreadsheet lines start with "|",  
> command lines with "%", and everything else is considered Markdown.  
> Similarly, Markdown could be changed to accept these characters as  
> starting special "spreadsheet" lines.
>
> The syntax is something I kind of threw together in haste, with  
> only guide to have it similar to Excel syntax, so there is a lot of  
> room for improvement, and I am not too committed to it at the  
> moment. (To begin with, we need to have a lot more commands  
> created. Right now it only does sums, products and averages.)
>

Haris,

You might want to check the MultiMarkdown table syntax.  It would be  
really cool if your spreadsheet just turned into a nicely formatted  
table.   The syntax is here:  http://fletcher.freeshell.org/wiki/ 
MultiMarkdown

Brad
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