markupless tables

[robert mcgonegal]

On 8-Dec-05, 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.


There is a lovely simplicity to it. When else in Markdown are tabs or  
multiple spaces surrounded by text? Might it work if the following  
was reserved as a definition for "simple tables"?

Text[four or more spaces]Text
Text[one or more tabs]Text

Robert McGonegal