Ciao Mark S.
Provided the editor, or the edit section for tables, is mono-spaced I think
its a better visual solution. Issues might be if you have a very wide table
("table-mode" a popout to address?).
J.
Mark S. wrote:
>
> This may be a digression on tables and ascii.
>
> The problem with drawing ascii tables is there's inevitably a cell which
> has contents that are too long and that when rendered will fold to a second
> line. Also drawing pipes "|" is a pain. But a markup could have a table
> mode where
> white space (double spaces, double line entry) are used for delimiters.
>
> Then you could have:
>
> .table
> I am the egg We all live Imagine all
> drop man with a yellow the tribbles
> baboon
>
> Yesterday, tic Hey Dude, Feed the
> tac toe was don't make squirrels
> a mess
> .endtable
>
> where it was easy to keep things aligned and still readable as ASCII.
>
> -- Mark
>
>
> On Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 9:39:04 AM UTC-7, @TiddlyTweeter wrote:
>>
>> Ha! Really interesting issue. Which I'm gonna riff off.
>>
>> PMario..
>>
>>> I don't want to mess with some ASCII art to get a table going.
>>>
>>
>>
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