Re: A little idea for shr and table

["Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>]

Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info> writes:

> Hi there,
>
> I've used mm-shr for the last couple of days and I'm happy with it.
>
> I'm just sad to see that there's no images in the tables. But i've got
> a little idea that could work.
>
> I heard that Ted had some code to create SVG images on the fly. That
> could be used to just draw a couple of fixed size images to build the
> table (equivalent to the current |, -, +). Since we can't know the size
> of a char, we would know the size of the image we draw here to build the
> table borders.
>
> Then, it'd be possible to build table with the right column width and
> line height to match all embedded images, and therefore draw a cute
> table.
>
> Using something like (propertize "" 'display '(space . (:width 100))),
> we may be able to even draw borderless tables for free.
>
> Yeah, I could probably give it a try, but I think that if Lars like the
> idea he might want to play with it himself or just say "that won't
> work". ;-)

FWIW, I like ASCII art better, so I'd prefer to at least have an option
to get text-only tables if the "fancy" method becomes the default.

Štěpán