Any news re tables and Markdown?

[John Gruber]

Chris Purcell <cjp39 at cam.ac.uk> wrote on 03/15/05 at 5:13pm:

> > You can't make a nice-looking table in plain text using proportional
> > typefaces.
> 
> Tab characters.

That's not guaranteed to make things line up in a plain text
document, though. It could in a word processing document, where you
can set tab stops, but not in a plain text document where a tab is
presumed to be so many spaces wide.

For example, this:

    iiii    foo
    mmmm    bar

(where "foo" and "bar" should be preceded by one tab each), will
look very different depending on whether you're looking at it in a
proportional or monospaced typeface.

-J.G.