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Comment by zimpenfish

6 years ago

Multimarkdown tables are fairly straightforward, no? From a blog post about the linear typewriters last year, a simple table (unformatted because I'm lazy.)

    input file | my score | article score | ratio
    -----------|----------|---------------|------
    stripped.txt | 5262321 | 5499341 | 95.7%
    s2.txt | 5510008 | 5499341 | 100.2%

vs

    .Table Scores
    |===
    | input file | my score | article score | ratio

    | stripped.txt
    | 5262321
    | 5499341
    | 95.7%

    | s2.txt
    | 5510008
    | 5499341
    | 100.2%
    |===

And that's just two lines of four columns - I've got blog posts with 20 lines of 5 columns. It would be heartbreaking to type that in.

I vastly prefer adoc's tables because I don't need to concern myself with aligning anything to figure out what's what.

  • A fair concern. For me it doesn't work because the table headers aren't laid out the same way as the rows and that's just two ways of confusion.