> The effort required to keep the chart looking tidy quickly outweighs the effort writing a normal pure-code form. Github's markdown tables allow an intermedia

> The effort required to keep the chart looking tidy quickly outweighs the effort writing a normal pure-code form. Github's markdown tables allow an intermediate form: one can edit tabular source untidily while editing (although it still always renders tidily in a markdown viewer), and then, before committing, run a pretty printer that restores a nice tidy tabular look even in the ascii source.