On Feb 26, 2009, at 5:00 AM, [email protected] wrote:
i hope you will agree with _my_ obvious counter:
monospaced fonts aren't the only way to do that.
indeed, they aren't even the most _common_ way.
(that distinction still goes to the old-fashioned tab,
by which i mean computation of the point to write.)
No, but it's the expectation with Markdown that you'll use a
monospaced font.
in reference to the actual topic of the actual thread,
if anyone were to write a markdown authoring-tool
-- my favorite is still "showdown", it's very cool --
you'll discover that it's fairly easy to support tables.
(even ones that are relatively complex, layout-wise;
for instance, determining defaults for alignment is
very simple, and they almost always work correctly.)
you just discern the columns, size them appropriately,
determine cell alignment, and write text at proper spot.
so the regular emergence of this thread, reminiscent of
punxsatawney phil the groundhog, is really unnecessary.
I agree that the formatting of a table should be implicit as much as
possible.
but i don't care. use monospace all day. just don't tell steve,
ok?
might interfere with his recovery, and we all need him back soon.
If Steve wrote markdown, or wrote code, he's use a monospaced font,
because it's the right tool for the job.
Best,
David
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