Markdown development

[Albert Skye]

>>> It depends on what you are trying to do. If you want a simple 

>>> multi-column list of corresponding text such as:

>>> 

>>> Position      Team              P      GD      PTS

>>> 1                 Man Utd         31     46      67

>>> 2                 Arsenal          31     40       67

>>> 3                 Chelsea          29     42      64

>>> 4                 Tottenham     30     26      55

>>> 5                 Liverpool       31     19       52

>>> 6                 Man City        28     17       50

>>> 7                 Aston Villa     29     17       50

>>> 8                 Everton          30      6       45

>>> 9                 Birmingham   30     -3       44

>>> 10               Fulham           29      0       38

>>> 11               Stoke              30     -6       36

>>> 12               Sunderland    30     -6       34

>>> 13               Blackburn      29     -17     34

>>> 14               Bolton             31     -20     32

>>> 15               Wigan             31     -30     31

>>> 16               Wolves            30     -24     28

>>> 17               West Ham       30     -14     27

>>> 18               Burnley           31     -33     24

>>> 19               Hull                 30     -35     24

>>> 20               Portsmouth    30     -25     13

>>>      

>> FWIW, that's pretty illegible at whatever tab width my MUA uses.

>> 

>> Best,

>> 

>> David

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> FWIW it isn't an html-formatted table. I just copied it from a 

> football website. It doesn't look very nice in mine either. The 

> spacings got all messed up in copying but I wasn't going to take the 

> time to fix it.


It's certainly legible in Georgia.


> And another problem is fixed vs variable fonts. I tend to use a 

> variable font in my MUA (and elsewhere). That makes aligning text 

> with tabs virtually impossible.


Eventually, the character column will no longer be taken for granted. The sooner the better, for me. Syntax for tables (and anything else) which depends on fixed-width font formatting seems innately brittle and shorter of life than syntax which does not have that dependency.

Elastic tabstops.
http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/