On 23/03/10 02:11 AM, Albert Skye wrote:
It depends on what you are trying to do. If you want a simple
multi-column list of corresponding text such as:
Position Team P GD PTS
1 Man Utd 31 46 67
2 Arsenal 31 40 67
3 Chelsea 29 42 64
4 Tottenham 30 26 55
5 Liverpool 31 19 52
6 Man City 28 17 50
7 Aston Villa 29 17 50
8 Everton 30 6 45
9 Birmingham 30 -3 44
10 Fulham 29 0 38
11 Stoke 30 -6 36
12 Sunderland 30 -6 34
13 Blackburn 29 -17 34
14 Bolton 31 -20 32
15 Wigan 31 -30 31
16 Wolves 30 -24 28
17 West Ham 30 -14 27
18 Burnley 31 -33 24
19 Hull 30 -35 24
20 Portsmouth 30 -25 13
FWIW, that's pretty illegible at whatever tab width my MUA uses.
Best,
David
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FWIW it isn't an html-formatted table. I just copied it from a
football website. It doesn't look very nice in mine either. The
spacings got all messed up in copying but I wasn't going to take the
time to fix it.
It's certainly legible in Georgia.
And another problem is fixed vs variable fonts. I tend to use a
variable font in my MUA (and elsewhere). That makes aligning text
with tabs virtually impossible.
Eventually, the character column will no longer be taken for granted. The
sooner the better, for me. Syntax for tables (and anything else) which depends
on fixed-width font formatting seems innately brittle and shorter of life than
syntax which does not have that dependency.
Elastic tabstops.
http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/
Elastic tabstops would certainly make my pseudo-table much cleaner.
Would make creating such a table a breeze without requiring special
markup. Is this idea actually catching on or is it like Sony Beta - a
better solution that no one will buy into?
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