Re: [Boost-docs] [quickbook] Creating complex tables

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] [quickbook] Creating complex tables
From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-16 16:30:32

Darren Garvey wrote:
>> I was wondering if quickbook allows complex tables. An example is
>> here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Table#M.C3.A9lange
>>
>> The main thing I'd like to be able to do is have a top-level cell
>> that splits into more than one on the next row. I messed around with
>> stuff like:
>>
>> [table
>>  [[first header] [second header]]
>>  [[upper left   ] [upper right 1] [upper right 2]]
>> ]
>>
>> That doesn't seem to be possible, or am I missing something?

I don't think it's possible, at least not in a nice way: you might be able 
to put a table inside a table, but I suspect the result would be rather ugly 
:-(

John.