Re: [RFC] MIME attachments for comint

[Robin Tarsiger <rtt@dasyatidae.com>]

Augusto Stoffel wrote:
> The following example
> 
>      <table style="text-align: right">
>        <tr style="text-align: right"><td>A</td><td>1.0</td></tr>
>        <tr><td style="text-align: right">AA</td><td>10.0</td></tr>
>        <tr><td>AAA</td><td>100.0</td></tr>
>      </table>
> 
> renders like this:
> 
>      A     1.0
>      AA    10.0
>      AAA   100.0
> 
> Is there any other syntax for text alignment in HTML?

There's the pre-CSS align="right" property style. Also valign for
vertical-align.

I notice that shr doesn't have anything close to a full CSS parser
to start with, which is understandable given the complexity of such
a thing. However, note that in a full document, it's also reasonable
in an HTML context to do something like

   <style>
   table.foo td.bar { text-align: right }
   table.foo td.baz { text-align: center }
   </style>
   <!-- ... -->
   <table class="foo">
     <tr><td class="bar">A</td><td class="baz">III</td><td class="baz">XII</td></tr>
     <tr><td class="bar">B</td><td class="baz">XIV</td><td class="baz">VII</td></tr>
   </table>

where the alignments cannot be inferred from a purely local
traversal. I don't know how many people do this, but I do when
I'm outputting HTML tables with known record formats, because
it makes it much easier to restyle the types/columns as needed
(that being the purpose of CSS in the first place).

I'm curious what your likely HTML sources are going to be for this,
since if you try to subset the above at all then what you need to
support becomes very dependent on what the generators are like.

-RTT