Good tools for creating tables, including CSS setup, recommendations?

[Chris G]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 01:53:58PM +0100, Florian Diesch wrote:
> Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> 
> > I want to be able to create tables for displaying information on web
> > pages and I'm looking for tools to help me do this.  Most HTML I
> > either write directly with a text editor or is generated from
> > reStructuredText but either of these gets very laborious for tables.
> >
> > What I need to be able to do is:-
> >
> >     Create and modify tables, add and delete rows and columns easily.
> >
> >     Change the borders for the whole table consistently and easily,
> >     specifically I want completely plain (no shadowing) borders in a
> >     pale colour so they they are not too distracting.
> >
> >     Make row spans and column spans easily.
> >
> >     Enter text into the cells.
> 
> Emacs has support for editing tables, see
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Text-Based-Tables.html>
> 
That might be the only answer, the EMACS table support actually works
rather well with reStructuredText.  The example table shown in the
above link is exactly what reStructuredText expects as it's more
complete table syntax.

However I *think* I have found an alternative that works for me,
there's an alpha version of Kompozer available which has fixed the
crashing inherent in version 0.7.10 (due to an incompatibility with
GTK 2.14), if anyone is interested it's here:-

    http://downloads.sourceforge.net/kompozer/kompozer-20090206.tar.gz

You just unpack it and run it so it doesn't mess up anything up too much.

I'm running it at present and, while it has a few oddities, it doesn't
crash and it edits tables quite nicely.  It has a built in CSS editor
so makes it fairly easy to set the borders as I want them.

-- 
Chris Green