Re: [Docutils-users] simple table without formatting

[Marcelo H. <mar...@gm...>]

Wol escribió el 19/2/2022 a las 21:10:

> I'm trying to create a simple table, the sort that one would do on a 
> typewriter using tabs. How on earth do you do it!

Forget the typewriter. We're using computers.

> This is oh so simple with tabs or fixed width fonts - why do so many modern
> systems find it almost impossible!

Because currently markup languages tend to be semantic. We're not in the age
of punchcards where the only document type is text and we force columns with
spaces or tabs. And, of course, trying to align text that way doesn't make any 
sense if you're using variable width fonts.

What you're showing is either a table of a series of containers. Presentation
is best left to the renderer. You are rendering to HTML and don't like the
table borders? Write your content as a table, add :class: borderless to your 
table, and that's it.

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    o-=< Marcelo >=-o