← Back to context Comment by gerikson 6 years ago I just ”shell out” to HTML for tables. 6 comments gerikson Reply Carpetsmoker 6 years ago HTML tables are hard to write, read, and edit though. If you want to make the document easily readable both as HTML and Markdown (quite useful for a README, I think) then it's not a very good option. gerikson 6 years ago I agree, I've resorted to writing Perl to generate the tables in some cases. swiley 6 years ago How do you make PDFs? When I’ve used html features I’ve resorted to weird tricks with WebKit but that’s really not great. gerikson 6 years ago > How do you make PDFs?I don't :D swiley 6 years ago I wish I had that luxury. 1 reply →
Carpetsmoker 6 years ago HTML tables are hard to write, read, and edit though. If you want to make the document easily readable both as HTML and Markdown (quite useful for a README, I think) then it's not a very good option. gerikson 6 years ago I agree, I've resorted to writing Perl to generate the tables in some cases.
swiley 6 years ago How do you make PDFs? When I’ve used html features I’ve resorted to weird tricks with WebKit but that’s really not great. gerikson 6 years ago > How do you make PDFs?I don't :D swiley 6 years ago I wish I had that luxury. 1 reply →
gerikson 6 years ago > How do you make PDFs?I don't :D swiley 6 years ago I wish I had that luxury. 1 reply →
HTML tables are hard to write, read, and edit though. If you want to make the document easily readable both as HTML and Markdown (quite useful for a README, I think) then it's not a very good option.
I agree, I've resorted to writing Perl to generate the tables in some cases.
How do you make PDFs? When I’ve used html features I’ve resorted to weird tricks with WebKit but that’s really not great.
> How do you make PDFs?
I don't :D
I wish I had that luxury.
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