Real tables in the field (tracking)

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
accessibility, frontend

Research direction

Start by reading decisions-2026-11-05-records.md and 19-tables.md to understand decisions Q73–Q79 and the proposed table design. The issue describes storage, Markdown import, editing, paste, and accessibility work, but names no implementation files or tests. First identify the table-related entry points and tests; done means implementing the agreed scope, including cell editing and accessibility, while respecting the listed exclusions.

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Description

textediting

Owner decisions Q73-Q79 and Q77' (decisions-2026-11-05-records.md; design in research 19-tables.md):

  • Storage: one paragraph per row in the existing Table Row style (plus a header-row style); cells separated by a ' | ' run in a Table Cell Separator character style (host-renamable); a caption paragraph in a Table Caption style after the table. No model change; readable in older FLEx.
  • Markdown: standard pipe tables plus Pandoc's 'Table: caption'; grid table when a cell holds a line break; alignment colons read and dropped with an info note.
  • Editing: tables derived from the flat paragraph list (TableMap); Tab next cell / adds a row in the last cell; Enter and Shift+Enter give a line break in a cell; Enter on an empty last row leaves; each table command one undo step; cell selection; add/remove rows and columns.
  • Paste: tab-separated text at a paragraph boundary becomes a table; 'Paste as table' too.
  • Accessibility: one item per cell (Avalonia has no UIA grid/table patterns: to design).
  • Not in scope: widths, alignment, merged cells, borders.
  • Related: block-features setting, sillsdev/motif#42 (p161), sillsdev/motif#43 (large tables).
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