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authorSimon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>2010-04-01 18:13:38 +0100
committerSimon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>2010-04-01 18:13:38 +0100
commit3c9cd4f156018aea3d10dbf02be529e85c05eb66 (patch)
treedda6a46190eddfcb9dcda4d895e3a4cf1265be25 /doc
parenta682df9a1f14ea873c7103f80108330840a15cd0 (diff)
Explain tab-delimited tables a bit better
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/bugs/Tab_delimited_tables_don__39__t_work.mdwn2
-rw-r--r--doc/ikiwiki/directive/table.mdwn5
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bugs/Tab_delimited_tables_don__39__t_work.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Tab_delimited_tables_don__39__t_work.mdwn
index 278826ea0..39d57a4fe 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/Tab_delimited_tables_don__39__t_work.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/Tab_delimited_tables_don__39__t_work.mdwn
@@ -18,3 +18,5 @@ alpha beta
"""]]
>
> So, I think this can be considered [[not_a_bug|done]]? --[[smcv]]
+
+>> I've clarified the documentation. --[[smcv]]
diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/table.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/table.mdwn
index 2dac97724..a6692f92c 100644
--- a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/table.mdwn
+++ b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/table.mdwn
@@ -42,4 +42,9 @@ cells. For example:
as the table header. Set it to "no" to make a table without a header, or
"column" to make the first column be the header.
+For tab-delimited tables (often obtained by copying and pasting from HTML
+or a spreadsheet), `delimiter` must be set to a literal tab character. These
+are difficult to type in most web browsers - copying and pasting one from
+the table data is likely to be the easiest way.
+
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