Re: Table formatting challenge

/ David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
| Actually Norm contacted me off the list over the weekend,  I'm not
| totally familiar with the American idiom, but I think it translated as
| a comment that my code, whilst technically correct, was not as general
| as perhaps required.

Yeah, that's one translation :-)

| So here's a second version that isn't as elegant as the first but is
| more general (although as written it only copes with row spans in single
| figures)

By "single figures", do you mean row spans less than 10 or something
else?

Anyway, this code doesn't quite seem to work. In particular, for

<informaltable>
<tgroup cols="4">
<colspec colname="c4b" colnum="4"/>
<tbody>
<row>
  <entry>A</entry>
  <entry>B</entry>
  <entry morerows="2">C</entry>
  <entry morerows="2">D</entry>
</row>
<row>
  <entry morerows="2">E</entry>
  <entry>F</entry>
</row>
<row>
  <entry>G</entry>
</row>
<row>
  <entry>H</entry>
  <entry namest="c4b">I</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>

It produces too-many extra cells:

<table border="1">
   <tr>
      <td>A</td>
      <td>B</td>
      <td rowspan="3">C</td>
      <td rowspan="3">D</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td rowspan="3">E</td>
      <td>F</td>
      <td class="auto-generated">extra</td>
      <td class="auto-generated">extra</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>G</td>
      <td class="auto-generated">extra</td>
      <td class="auto-generated">extra</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>H</td>
      <td class="auto-generated">.</td>
      <td>I</td>
   </tr>
</table>

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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