tables with Unicode box drawing characters?

[david parsons]

In article <871221ae0909100931w5b6da2d4neec60c5a2e9d2b4a at mail.gmail.com>,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sidney_San_Mart=EDn?=  <markdown-discuss at six.pairlist.net> wrote:

>I believe that Suraj is proposing that Markdown implement David

>Wheeler's proposed table formatting and provide the option to process

>them into tables made up of box characters.


    That seems like it would be an extraordinarily non-markdownish thing
    to do; redoing markdown into a "convert to html, except for one
    ascii-style formating wart" doesn't seem to be particularly useful.


    -david "no, I don't think that's a good plan" parsons