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Right now, specifying alignment within Wiki tables is somewhat painful, what
with having to type <nowiki>align="right"|</nowiki> or some such in front of
every cell.

The wish is to be able to specify, within a table's block of headers, the data
column alignments once, in compact notation. We'd also like not only
right/center/left alignment but also number alignment (on the number's decimal
separator, even for scientific notation). Something like:

<nowiki>{| border="1" cellpadding="2" [...]
!! datalign="left"| Header1 !! datalign="number"| Value
</nowiki>

In this example, the two headers simultaneously defined the alignment to use for
any following data cells (the first two columns, anyway). A later block of
headers would reset the data alignment instructions, obviously. These settings
would be locally overridable (on a per-cell basis) by the usual
<nowiki>align="whatever"|</nowiki> instructions.