[HN Gopher] Reshaping Text ___________________________________________________________________ Reshaping Text Author : zdw Score : 28 points Date : 2022-09-23 18:05 UTC (2 days ago) (HTM) web link (leancrew.com) (TXT) w3m dump (leancrew.com) | siraben wrote: | One issue I've encountered in the past when using text formatted | with hard wrapping with non-technical people is that _presenting_ | the information usually goes fine, but when they want to _edit_ | the text a bunch of headaches ensue, since they don 't use | editors that reflow line endings or maintain spacing that would | only be clearly visible in a monospace context. | breck wrote: | Dammit it's very hard to go a day without getting a very high ROI | from reading HN. | entelechy0 wrote: | staplung wrote: | FWIW, if you could get almost the same effect from google docs | (and presumably excel): if you cut/copy a grid of cells and paste | it into something that only understands text (e.g. VScode) you'll | get tab-delimited columns of text. I don't know if there's a way | to get some of the niceties like left aligning but I've used | google docs for this sort of trick many times. 1 | 5 9 2 6 10 3 7 11 4 8 12 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-09-25 23:00 UTC)