Tables Revisited
Well, it turned out that there wasn’t an especially easy solution to the table problem. There is an updated Stacks plug-in for RapidWeaver that permits the creation of tables with unlimited rows, but each cell is a separate Stacks object, which quickly mires down both editor and browser. In the end, there still doesn’t seem to be anything better than a manual process: I ended up creating a “raw” HTML table in Kompozer, applying CSS styles for the various rows, and then pasting the resulting HTML/CSS code into RapidWeaver. The results seem to be mostly acceptable.
I will probably convert the other two Desert Storm air campaign tables this week, and begin implementing some updates based on more recent sources. The original trio of air campaign tables was based on the statistical annex to the USAF’s official 1993 five-volume survey. But Desert Storm began twenty years ago this month, and since then, more detailed accounts of the air campaign have emerged, in some cases correcting errors that appeared in the earlier sources. Two especially useful works are Craig Brown’s Debrief: A Complete History of U.S. Aerial Engagements 1981 to the Present, and Steve Davies’/Doug Dildy’s F-15 Eagle Engaged — I plan to use both of them to update, validate, and expand my Coalition air-to-air victories table.