On Feb 25, 2009, at 9:57 AM, Sherwood Botsford wrote:
I suspect that if you were going to write a lot of tables, you'd write
a perl program that would take an existing table that you slopped
together, and would fix the spacing of pipes on all the lines to match
the pipe spacing on the first line.
Since I write most of my MultiMarkdown documents in TextMate, I (and
others) have written Bundles that will do just this. I type out a
table using the MMD delimiters (|), and the bundle command takes care
of aligning columns and making it look nice. Sadly, I suspect that
plain text tables require either the use of tabs (which vary based on
the readers application), or fixed whitespace and a monospace font -
which is tough to manually write.
My thoughts:
+ I am perfectly willing to change the MMD table syntax if a better
alternative (particularly a standard one) comes along
+ Not everyone uses monospace fonts - as nice as that would be for
tables, I think it's not reasonable to expect that to be a requirement
for viewing tables
+ I hope someone out there smarter than me creates a better table syntax
;)
F-
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