This sounds interesting, but I’m not sure I understand your proposal fully… what do you mean by ‘interpolating’ formatting?
I would like a way to visually combine that with the tabular data while keeping the too distinct in the underling format such that:
- Constraints (e.g. type or format constraints) could be applied to the tabular data - The non-tabular data is free-form word processor style
It would also be be useful to be able to combine multiple tables with the same visual page.
In fact, this is why I asked — I’m actively working on an program which allows just this. In theory, it should be sufficiently flexible to allow for the kind of markup you mention… one more thing to look into!