Markdown development

Seumas Mac Uilleachan seumas at idirect.ca
Tue Mar 23 20:29:52 EDT 2010


On 23/03/10 02:11 AM, Albert Skye wrote:

>>>> 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/

>


Elastic tabstops would certainly make my pseudo-table much cleaner.
Would make creating such a table a breeze without requiring special
markup. Is this idea actually catching on or is it like Sony Beta - a
better solution that no one will buy into?


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