Re: [Docutils-users] simple table without formatting

[Wols L. <ant...@yo...>]

On 20/02/2022 01:44, Marcelo Huerta wrote:
> 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.
> 
Okay, done a bit of googling, ended up with this, and I've still got 
grid lines everywhere ...

.. table::
    :class: borderless
=========== =========================================================
Item-Id -   A character string (maximum 48 characters) which
             uniquely identifies an item within a file. The item-id
             may include any characters except system delimiters,
             however the use of blanks, single quotes, quotes,
             commas, and backslash characters may require special
             considerations.
...
...

At least it compiles, which is more than my initial attempts :-)

Cheers,
Wol