Tables should be more distinct

[silverhook]

Tables in Pelican Elegant are very simple and un-elegant. Case in point:

…the visual representation would be:

| | | | | | | | | | |   |
|----:|:----:|----:|:----:|----:|:----:|----:|:----:|----:|:----:|------|
|     |   M  |  | **_O_** |   |  **_N_** |   |  T |   |  Y |     |
|  0 |    |  **_1_** |         |  **_2_** |          |  **_3_** |    |  4 |    |  5   |
| -5 |    | **_-4_** |         | **_-3_** |          | **_-2_** |    | -1 |    | None |

As you can see, this logic works for both positive and negative numbers as well as mixing the two in sequences.

produces this:

https://matija.suklje.name/understanding-how-python-counts

Perhaps adding alternating backgrounds for the fields would help here to make it more appealing and easier to read as table.

[iranzo]

I would suggest options to either use lines, alternate colours, etc not to force just one format.

BTW (off topic), some editors allow 'formatting' the visual 'code' representation so that it looks more 'similar' to final result:

It adds spaces, etc but seems easier to 'see'

[talha131]

I would suggest options to either use lines, alternate colours, etc not to force just one format.

This is the style I am working on

Adding options is great but how would user specify which option to use in Markdown, unless we create a Pelican plugin for this purpose?

I say we offer a sensible default that is good enough for most of the users.

BTW (off topic), some editors allow 'formatting' the visual 'code' representation so that it looks more 'similar' to final result:

If you use prettier via Git hook, then it does this automatically for you.

https://elegant.oncrashreboot.com/use-pre-commit-git-hooks

[talha131]

Note that the in the image I provided,

1. Table is bordered
2. Alternating Rows have background color

[talha131]

Fixed

[talha131]

🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 4.0.0 🎉

The release is available on GitHub release

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[ptkin]

Hi @silverhook , I met the same issue as you, i.e., there were no borders or background colors with the rendered tables.

But I found that I was using an old version of the Elegant theme by mistake. The latest version is v4.0.0, while the version involved by the getpelican/pelican-themes repo is v3.0.0. So I remove the old version and reinstall the latest one, and now it works!

[talha131]

@ptkin may I know how you update the Elegant theme and how do you get to know about our new releases?

[ptkin]

Updating themes

I just remove the old version by pelican-themes -r elegant, clone the latest repo of Elegant, and reinstall it by pelican-themes -i path/to/elegant.

Knowing about new releases

I'm new to Pelican, so I'm looking for an "elegant" theme for myself today. And that's it, the Elegant theme! When I meet this problem, I guess there may be something mismatching, then I notice that the version of the theme in the getpelican/pelican-themes repo doesn't match the latest version, so I tried to update the theme and finally solve the problem smoothly. This theme is really nice, I like it and thank you very much.

[talha131]

@ptkin thank you for your response.

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