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00634: Define markup to add row attributes to advanced tables

Description:

Issue

It is currently possible to modify attributes for both tables and cells using the advanced table markup, but it is impossible to modify attributes on individual rows.

Discussion:

To avoid author confusion, it would be best to add something to the (:table:) and (:cellnr:) directives directly. It has been suggested to add a (:row ...attr...:) directive. The problem with this idea can be illustrated with the following scenario:

 
 (:cell:)
 A
 (:row:)
 B
 (:cell:)
 C

The (:row:) directive would render things rather vague since one might ask: is B on a new row? Is it in its own cell?

Proposed Markup

I suggest adding a |row markup that would fit inside of a (:table:) and (:cellnr:) directives which would delineate any attributes meant to be passed to the current row.

So we might have:

 
 (:table bgcolor=blue |row bgcolor=yellow:)
 We are in the first cell of the table, this entire row will be yellow

 (:cell:)
 Second cell, still yellow bg

 (:cellnr:)
 Second row, bg is blue since the table bg is blue


 (:cellnr bgcolor=red |row bgcolor=green:)
 Third row, first cell, my bg is red

 (:cell:)
 Third row, second cell, my bg is green (row is green)

 (:cellnr:)
 New row, my bg is back to the table bg, blue