It is really a pit that elastic tabstops and .tsv text files (instead .csv with comma or semicolon as separator depending on region) are not common today. The easiest way to write a table is simply hitting tab. It is also the easiest way to read tabular data in columns. Only for the programmers of the first text editing programs it was easier to show every tab character simply as 4 spaces. The Elastic Tabstops feature shows consecutive lines of text with tab characters in table columns.
In a perfect world we would had plain text tables everywhere easy to write and read thanks to Elastic Tabstops. Unfortunately it seems not easy to implement in existing text engines.
In a perfect world we would had plain text tables everywhere easy to write and read thanks to Elastic Tabstops. Unfortunately it seems not easy to implement in existing text engines.