From: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: ASCII table export should use tabs?
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 12:30:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimU_+FNaGew-X6P2C4gkTZDQJeBCT7wChps6s5U@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
I wonder if org should export ASCII tables using tabs.
If I send to this list, I can be confident that everybody will know to
display in a monospace font. That is not true for non-technical
audiences. Yet I think there are times when I want to send ASCII
instead of HTML. At least, I am not confident that /I/ know that HTML
will display correctly.
Tabs are not a perfect solution, as they will break with long entries.
Still, you can read a broken table with tabs easier than a table
displayed in a proportional font, which I believe most nontechnical
people use.
What do you think?
Samuel
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next reply other threads:[~2011-03-27 19:30 UTC|newest]
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2011-03-27 19:30 Samuel Wales [this message]
2011-03-28 9:40 ` ASCII table export should use tabs? Eric S Fraga
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