I'm doing some research for my own enlightenment and possibly that of others as well. I have some questions about Easy Grids:
1.) Formatting: I have seen that certain table formatting characters do not work the same way in a grid. Notably, !! will not specify all grid squares to the right in a row as headers the way it will in a table. Is this by design? I'm suspecting from this that such formats as justification/alignment, column and row spans, and width constraints (e.g. |50% ) mean nothing in a grid square also.
Things that do work, to my knowledge:
- Text colors and styles - these seem to have no effect on the size of a grid square in which they occur so long as the text itself does not "stretch" the square.
- The ! generates headers in an individual square just fine.
- The = likewise shades individual squares with the default background color.
2.) Offset Grids: Is it possible to produce a set of grid squares that is offset by half a square in alternate rows? (This could be useful in simulating a hex map.) My initial attempts indicate this may not be do-able in an Easy Grid, but might be possible with a very carefully constructed Easy Table.
3.) Using Grids Inside a Table: It is possible to use grids within an HTML table by nesting them inside cells:
<table><tr><td>
+---+---+
| 1 | 2 |
+---+---+
| 3 | 4 |
+---+---+
</td><td>
+---+---+
| 1 | 2 |
+---+---+
| 3 | 4 |
+---+---+
</td></tr>
<tr><td><tr><td>
+---+---+
| 1 | 2 |
+---+---+
| 3 | 4 |
+---+---+
</td><td>
+---+---+
| 1 | 2 |
+---+---+
| 3 | 4 |
+---+---+
</td></tr>
</table>
yields:
Does this work for enclosing a grid inside an Easy Table?
I'm off to work for now, so more later?