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Show HN: A simple algorithm for drawing complex tables

• Snaipe 11y ago
  Author here. This was fun to make, although I'm sure this algorithm is absolutely nothing new. An implementation of this for rendering tables as rst-style ascii is available here: https://github.com/Snaipe/table2ascii https://github.com/Snaipe/table2ascii As always, suggestions are welcome.
  • voaie 11y ago
    Great tutorial with pictures! I'd like to see the tutorial for ascii2table too.
• fiatjaf 11y ago
  This is great, but not a "Show HN".
  • braindev 11y ago
    Why is it not a "Show HN"?
    • evanpw 11y ago
      "Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. ... For example, blog posts ... can't be tried out, so they don't count as Show HNs." [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
      • detaro 11y ago
        The example code is on GitHub (linked at the end of the post), so you can try it out.