Editor: Spreadsheet format/Table improvements

[gsantner]

What I generally miss on mobile is a somewhat usable solution for spreadsheets & table editing - even more, that works with plaintext and no binary/proprietary format. Tables on mobile generally are a bit troublesome due limited width and unless you make tables with one or two word on 2 columns. You are out of horizontal space quickly, i.e. you can only see the first few column(s) with the others are in next line (automatic line break), or invisible out of screen (no automatic line break).

Note that this discussion is about editing/editor not about view mode/export

Ideas

• Implement support for an plaintext format specalized for spreadsheet/tables (i.e. no general purpose format for texts like markdown/Zim) --> CSV?
• Way better support for table editing in Markdown format

Breaking one row at editor to multiple lines(/=rows) again to fit on screen generally defeats the purpose of tables/spreadsheet. Screen width also don't get magically larger. So the options are limited to:

• no automatic line break / horizontal scrolling / remaining columns invisible
• controlling content size / font size / scale

Existing topics

Issues/Discussions with existing comments/discussion:

• Markdown Table Editor #338
• Difficulty with Tables #1574
• md: Break line inside tables (two spaces at end of line) #1567
• markdown: auto format tables #1551
• md: auto format table rows (auto add new on enter press) #1058
• Markdown table and image size rendering #312

Discussion

Discussion is very welcome, as well helping with development on topic 😃

[k3b]

Related: Feature request: #1980