Markdown development

[Seumas Mac Uilleachan]

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?