From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Samuel Wales Subject: ASCII table export should use tabs? Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 12:30:36 -0700 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49232 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q3vfb-0000OF-5W for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:30:40 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3vfZ-0004uC-Vl for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:30:38 -0400 Received: from mail-wy0-f169.google.com ([74.125.82.169]:57003) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3vfZ-0004u6-NZ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:30:37 -0400 Received: by wyf19 with SMTP id 19so2735409wyf.0 for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 12:30:37 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 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 -- The Kafka Pandemic: http://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com/2010/12/welcome-to-kafka-pandemic-two-forces_9182.html I support the Whittemore-Peterson Institute (WPI) === I want to see the original (pre-hold) Lo et al. 2010 NIH/FDA/Harvard MRV paper.