Tables how they should be
Plain text with Elastic Tabstops
Tabstops in adjacent lines should align as columns. This is called Elastic Tabstops by http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/.
Text editor should offer following options
a) Show table grid (should be default for non-code)
John Legend | Ohio | 1978 |
Israel Kamakawiwoʻole | 1959 | |
Lil Peep | Pennsylvania |
b) Automatically align numbers
c) Overflow to next cell if empty
John Legend | Ohio | 1978 |
Israel Kamakawiwoʻole | 1959 | |
Lil Peep | Pennsylvania | |
d) Wrap long text in cell
John Roger Stephens | Springfield, Ohio, USA | December 28, 1978 |
Israel „Iz“ Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole | May 20, 1959 | |
Gustav Elijah Åhr | Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA | |
c) and d) should automatically occur if table is too wide to fit in display port.
Markdown Tables how they should be
I wish Elastic Tabstops could conquer the world like Markdown. To extend Markdown with tables. Tabstops are original supposed for tables. In TSV (tab-separated values) format even tab and newline characters are possible inside.
New line and tab stops inside table cell as plain text format
Source text, in tab-separated values (TSV) format:
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Simple text | Line ↵ break | Tab ⇥ stop | Text with "quote" and double""quote. |
Markdown code to show this example:
```
Simple text"line
break""tabstop""Text with ""quote"" and double""""quote."
```
| | | | |
| ----------- | ------------- | ----------- | ------------------------------------ |
| Simple text | line<br>break | tabstop | Text with "quote" and double""quote. |
For code I cannot recommend elastic tabstops:
https://www.martzell.de/2019/06/einfachste-tabellen-uberall-moglich-mit.html