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Piestar
member, 951 posts
once upon a time...
...there was a little pie
Fri 20 Aug 2021
at 15:01

msg #1

Table magic

Is there a way to put a table next to a table? Say I want a 3X3 grid, then a gap, then another 3X3 grid.

Imladir
member, 55 posts
Fri 20 Aug 2021
at 15:13

msg #2

Table magic

Best you can probably hope for is a 7x3 table with the image in the middle column and a row span of 3.

Piestar
member, 952 posts
once upon a time...
...there was a little pie
Fri 20 Aug 2021
at 15:14

msg #3

Table magic

Ahh... I guess I can make that work. I imagine it will look ugly though. Thanks.

evileeyore
member, 520 posts
GURPS GM and Player
Joined 20150819
Sat 21 Aug 2021
at 00:47

msg #4

Table magic

Like so? This is about the best you're gonna get. It's one table, it's separated by the center column.

1	2	3	1	2	3
1	2	3	1	2	3
1	2	3	1	2	3

soulsight
member, 326 posts
Reality is 10% perception
and 90% interpretation.
Sat 21 Aug 2021
at 01:59

msg #5

Table magic

1.1	1.2	1.3
2.1	2.2	2.3
3.1	3.2	3.3

So the appearance
is possible, if the
code is skewed.

1.1	1.2	1.3
2.1	2.2	2.3
3.1	3.2	3.3

<table border=0><tr><td>

| 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.3 |
| 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 |
| 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 |

</td>
<td>So the appearance
is possible, if the
code is skewed.</td>
<td>

| 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.3 |
| 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 |
| 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 |

</td></tr></table>

This message was last edited by the user at 02:09, Sat 21 Aug 2021.

Piestar
member, 954 posts
once upon a time...
...there was a little pie
Sat 21 Aug 2021
at 16:00

msg #6

Table magic

Hey, that worked pretty good! Far easier than the work around I used.

I was trying to make a Sudoku as a puzzle for my game, and you really need to gaps to see it well.

Sadly after I put in all the work, I found out my players hate Sudoku!

Oh well.
Thanks though, I am keeping your suggestion on file in case the need should come up again.

theseeker
member, 33 posts
Sat 21 Aug 2021
at 23:38

msg #7

Table magic

Where a table cell wants to collapse because it is empty, (and a simple space does not work), put ` ` in. That is a non-breaking space character, and it will not get dropped where normal spaces will.

Piestar
member, 956 posts
once upon a time...
...there was a little pie
Sat 21 Aug 2021
at 23:44

msg #8

Table magic

In reply to theseeker (msg # 7):

Oh, that is useful. I was dropping a ~ in the empty spaces.

Piestar
member, 957 posts
once upon a time...
...there was a little pie
Sat 21 Aug 2021
at 23:45

msg #9

Table magic

In reply to evileeyore (msg # 4):

How did you do that? Can you show the code?

evileeyore
member, 522 posts
GURPS GM and Player
Joined 20150819
Sun 22 Aug 2021
at 00:44

msg #10

Table magic

Piestar:

How did you do that? Can you show the code?

It's "Easy Table" stuff, so it's 7 columns wide

| 1a | 2a | 3a |1.3 4a | 5a | 6a | 7a |
| 1b | 2b | 3b | 5c | 6c | 7c |
| 1c | 2c | 3c | 5c | 6c | 7c |

1a	2a	3a	4a	5a	6a	7a
1b	2b	3b		5c	6c	7c
1c	2c	3c		5c	6c	7c

But aside from the first row, the rest are all 6 columns, because the "1.3" when put up against the leading pipe is designating how many columns and rows it's taking up. The number before the "period" is column, the number after is rows.

You can do all kinds of nifty tricks...

|!! 1a | 2a | 3a |1.3 4abc | 5a | 6a | 7a |
| 1b |2.2 2bc | 5b | 6b | 7b |
| 1c | 5c | 6c | 7c |
| 1d | 2d | 3d | 4d | 5d | 6d | 7d |

1a	2a	3a	4abc	5a	6a	7a
1b	2bc			5b	6b	7b
1c	2bc			5c	6c	7c
1d	2d	3d	4d	5d	6d	7d

There are a whole lot of cool things you can do with Easy Tables, and some extra stuff if you mix in HTML table code as soulsight did in their post.

Rmail me for the link, it's to a different game, so I can't actually post the link to the "Easy Tables and Grids Tutorial (Peer Review Requested)" thread that's in Technical Discussions forum here... (but it is also the top result on google with "rpol Easy Tables and Grids Tutorial (Peer Review Requested)" as your search perameters).

This message was last edited by the user at 00:45, Sun 22 Aug 2021.

jmurrell
member, 79 posts
Sun 22 Aug 2021
at 02:14

msg #11

Table magic

Do tables not work in character sheets? I can't get them to work with either the <t> tags or the |easy tables.

Piestar
member, 958 posts
once upon a time...
...there was a little pie
Sun 22 Aug 2021
at 02:27

msg #12

Table magic

In reply to jmurrell (msg # 11):

They should, I think I've used tables in my character sheets.

bigbadron
moderator, 16034 posts
He's big, he's bad,
but mostly he's Ron.
Sun 22 Aug 2021
at 04:16

moderator post | [quote] | [reply] | msg #13

Table magic

In reply to evileeyore (msg # 10):

Posting a link to a thread in another public forum here is perfectly okay: link to a message in another game

evileeyore
member, 523 posts
GURPS GM and Player
Joined 20150819
Sun 22 Aug 2021
at 05:22

msg #14

Table magic

bigbadron:

Posting a link to a thread in another public forum here is perfectly okay: link to a message in another game

Don't mind me. I've just bungled this rule so many times I'm aggressively over-correcting.

Piestar
member, 959 posts
once upon a time...
...there was a little pie
Sun 22 Aug 2021
at 14:14

msg #15

Table magic

You didn't bungle your intent, so you are still a winner in my book.

Rathmun
member, 20 posts
Wed 23 Feb 2022
at 05:05

msg #16

Table magic

Is there a way to get multiline text into a multiline cell in easy tables?

blah	I want the text in this cell to span two lines.	blah
blah	I want the text in this cell to span two lines.	blah
blah	blah	blah
blah	blah	Multiple line tall cells would be much more useful if they could contain multiple lines of text.
blah	blah
blah	blah
blah	blah	blah	blah	blah

Oh, and that link a couple posts above already covers this. Lovely!

This message was last edited by the user at 05:07, Wed 23 Feb 2022.

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