Tables

[Fletcher T. Penney]

On Nov 15, 2005, at 11:15 AM, John Gruber wrote:


> robert mcgonegal <robert37 at gmail.com> wrote on 11/14/05 at 6:30 PM:

>

>> Fussing with exact spacing and extra pipes seems too similar to me to

>> fussing with opening and closing HTML table codes. Neither is

>> difficult but the closer you can keep to the simplicity of writing

>> email, the better.

>

> You wouldn't have to "fuss". If you wanted a right aligned column,

> just make sure each one is only one space from the right-side pipe  

> and that there are two or more spaces on the left:

>

>     |  Alaska |

>     |  California |

>     |  Maine |

>     |  New Mexico |

>

> -J.G.


But then the table columns would not be aligned in plain text view,  
EVEN with a monospaced font.  Which, as I noted in a previous email,  
seems like a much bigger problem than the colon.


I agree that a space based syntax is great, but I would not get rid  
of something akin to the colon syntax.

As always, my $.02...

Fletcher

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Fletcher T. Penney
fletcher at alumni.duke.edu

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