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2011 May 10
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Proposed table specification (long!)
...nightmare for authors. They are hardly "good" for markdown
parsers either, which (not being HTML parsers) treat HTML tables as
impenetrable blobs to be output "as is". Where does that leave us when we
want to go from markdown to PDF?
## I Do Like Monospaced Tables
It is the _visual alignment_ of terms into rows and columns that enables a
reader to recognise a table. Without any recognisable alignment, a reader
sees a jumbled "cloud" of terms -- which is exactly how we see tables with a
variable width font.
Additionally, a raw markdown document should
1. Be sharab...