Pieter Suurmond wrote in part:
But please let's use symbols that are different
from these html-lookalikes.
I'm quite new here so I don't know which symbols can be used to replace
"<td>", "<th>", "<tr>", and also
"<table>" (and </table> ???).
I don't see any problems with <table>, which is self explanatory
-- quite unlike <td>, <th> and <tr>!
For several possibilities for new symbols
(some of which make <table> unnecessary too,
some of which don't), see:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_markup_tables
(Not much happening there lately, but you could start it up again.
I for one have it on my watchlist.)
-- Toby