On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:37 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Where is whitespace alignment important except at the start of > a line? (And just what font would have sizeof(N.) be large > enough so that you'd need to indent more than 7 leading spaces > to line up with the text items? Wouldn't that count as a > pathological case ("If you use the super-wide-periods font, > your list items will look raggedy. Sorry.") and be ignored?) >
The scary truth is that aside from the start of a line, "basic Markdown" doesn't give two burps in a whirlwind about monospace versus proportional. Secretly, *I* usually use Verdana as my typical editing font. It's *only* when having characters line up vertically becomes an issue that I use a mono font, and that's relatively rare. Primarily it really hits the fan whenever anyone starts talking table formats because then communicating vertical alignment becomes *meaningful*. Until then, it largely doesn't matter. If I had my druthers, Markdown would be more like some other "indentation aware" systems I use in which the actual amount / number of indentational whitespace characters at the beginning of a line don't matter, just the relative indentation to other text. That'd make it hard to do more than one level of indentation stepping at a time, but how often does that come up in actual practice? But, sadly, that's not how it's defined. And we get on. *(My personal theory is that the holy wars re monospaced vs proportional may be part of why there's no native table design in Markdown ...)* -- Alexander Williams ([email protected]) Operation BSU (http://operationbsu.livejournal.com) "Like a morning show. Only interesting. And at night."
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