[users] Tables in Gemtext

[Oliver Simmons]

On Thu, 22 Apr 2021 at 09:17, Göktuğ Kayaalp <self@gkayaalp.com> wrote:
>
> Jason McBrayer jmcbray at carcosa.net writes:
> > Remember that not everything has to be inline. Images aren't inline in
> > gemtext, and tables are a lot like images. In my opinion, the most
> > Gemini way of presenting a table is a link to a text/csv document.
>
> +1
>
> As a bonus the user could configure a program to handle CSVs/TSVs that
> best fit their needs. Some clients may choose to display inline like
> others said.
>
> As another bonus, the table is ready to be used by anyone who wants to
> programmatically manipulate it, without any preprocessing.
>

A big YES to something simple like *SV, only use more advanced stuff
if you absolutely need to.
I don't want anyone to go through the pains I have gone through
getting garbled Microsoft tables and just plain weird table abuse into
a usable format.

-Oliver Simmons