markupless tables

[Fletcher T. Penney]

On Dec 8, 2005, at 7:31 PM, Aaron Swartz wrote:


> It'd be cool if:

>

> Travis Fast        9

> Bitch | Lab        5

> Yoshie Furuhashi   5

> boddi satva        4

>

> rendered as a table. (For those with proportional-width fonts, the

> second column is aligned.)


How would you support tabs?  I would propose that for this to be  
useful, you would have to accept tabs, as well as spaces.  Is there  
truly a standard conversion (e.g. 4 spaces equals 1 tab) to allow you  
to compare rows?

I agree it would be nice to have tables without dividers, but I think  
it makes it harder to be certain that the table is being interpreted  
properly...

Fletcher

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