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They're a good idea. We should write some, and then set up Travis CI to run them on each push with supported Python versions.

Since both matplotlib and HTML refer to color instead of colour, should we also add bg_color and text_color as alternative names to bg_colour and text_colour, respectively?

I'm trying to implement cells spanning multiple rows and columns in my fork. I've completed dealing with it in the TableCell class for both LaTex and HTML with the caveat that LaTex requires the inclusion of the 'multirow' package in the document preamble, e.g. \usepackage{multirow}. I still need to work on dealing with the TableRow class before it will be working.

Also since some of my tables will include HTML image tags with both local and remote content, I added a converter for a bare HTML img tag to a LaTex '\includegraphics{file_name.png}'. Due to my limited experience with LaTex, it will only be able to support png and jpg image types for the immediate future. How I deal with remote content is that it is downloaded into a directory named tmp_img before passing back the LaTex conversion.

I've included a couple of files I've been working with to test concepts in the repository. A LaTex document called 'Single Cell boxed.tex' that I've used to test table syntax, and a IPython Notebook (version 2.3.1) where I've been editing tabipy.py and testing HTML tables. I thought you might want to refer to them if you decide to do a little experimenting.

Just to clarify, for now my version of tabipy.py is none functional and will remain that way until the TableRow class is made to handle cells spanning multiple rows and or columns.

Lastly, I'm not sure if this should have been opened up as an issue or simply an email but I thought if someone else got industrious before I finished my version they could use my work as a starting point.

We need to resolve a few nonprogramming issues before we can convert this project into an installable package:

• License

  Any open source license is fine by me.

• Author, author_email

• Supported Python versions

I only use Python 2.7 but we can revise the code to support Python 3

A LaTeX view of tables can be produced by adding a _repr_latex_ method to the Table class.

Being able to specify a format string per column would make for a nice addition e.g.

t = Table(TableHeaderRow(('A', 'B', 'C')), format=('%.2g', '%i', '%3.4g'))

The user can set text colour and background colour for cells, and this shows up in the HTML. Is it possible for it to apply to LaTeX as well?

From discussion on #1, it may require third party packages, which is less than optimal.