Any news re tables and Markdown?

[Lou Quillio]

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David Herren wrote:
> I suspect a great many users of markdown use it only for producing
> web copy.

And it's tough to key a tab in a textarea.  It may be blasphemy, but any
syntax dependent on tabs chokes-off Markdown's oxygen.

Larger, all this fixed/proportional talk seems off point.

Gruber:

"Thus, ?Markdown? is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; and
(2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text
formatting to HTML."

A _plain text_ formatting syntax, perhaps converted to XHTML.

XHTML tables aren't confused by font selection.  Tabs are a convenience
in plaintext:  spaces work fine.  Folks who view plaintext in a
proportional typeface may resent that ASCII art and such doesn't appear
as intended, but they're used to it and have made their choice.
Markdown's in no position to resolve that.

LQ
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