Attributes in separate TSV file

[lhmarsden]

It would be good if the attributes listed here https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/blob/main/appa.adoc were sourced from a standalone file that is easier to read and develop software upon.

See this discussion for previous conversation on this
https://github.com/orgs/cf-convention/discussions/384

I will work on this and submit a pull request.

[lhmarsden]

I have been trying to work on this all day. Creating the TSV or CSV file is easy. However, presenting it nicely is not.

Referring to this file:
https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/blob/main/appa.adoc

I think I know what the issue is. This code snippet:

[[table-attributes]]
.Attributes
[options="header",cols="6,2,2,8,12",caption="Table A.1. "]
|===============
|{set:cellbgcolor!}
Attribute
| Type
| Use
| Links
| Description

Each cell in the table is separated by a '|'. The first cell is

|{set:cellbgcolor!}
Attribute

If you remove this {set:cellbgcolor!} the table for some reason has a red background. I assume this was put in as a quick fix. Ideally this would be somewhere else (perhaps in the config file). I don't know why the background is red by default. Nevertheless, the solution of including this within the first cell works with the current setup. However, if I do something like this:

[[table-attributes]]
.Attributes
[options="header",separator=|,cols="6,2,2,8,12",caption="Table A.1."]
[%header,format=csv]
|==============
{set:cellbgcolor!}
include::attributes.csv[]
|==============

This {set:cellbgcolor!} is seen as a separate cell. So then Attributes is moved along to the second column and every other cell thereafter is also moved along by one position.

I have tried a number of different things

• Different delimiters
• Including {set:cellbgcolor!} in the CSV file
• TSV file instead of CSV

but with no luck.

Does anyone know the origin of this {set:cellbgcolor!} code and whether this can be done in a different way? Perhaps someone is more familiar with how the makefile and config file are working. Why is the table being created with a red background if we remove this line?