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How did you get that nicely formatted graph and table in your post ?!

Krysoph 5mo ago
> Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is formatted as code. https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc crimes ↑ │ 10.0 ┤ ● Airport burger │ ╭──────────────╮ 8.0 ┤ │ theft arc │ │ ╰──────────────╯ 6.0 ┤ ● Five Guys │ 4.0 ┤ ● Food truck burger │ 2.0 ┤ ● McBurger │ 0.0 ┤ ● Homemade burger │ └───────┬─────────┬─────────┬─────────┬─────────→ price $2 $8 $14 $22 $38 ┌────────────────────┬────────┬──────────────┬────────────────────┐ │ burger │ price │ crime index │ expected behavior │ ├────────────────────┼────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────┤ │ Homemade burger │ $2 │ 0.0 │ law-abiding citizen│ │ McBurger │ $6 │ 1.4 │ steals extra napkin│ │ Food truck burger │ $11 │ 3.1 │ lies about hunger │ │ Five Guys │ $18 │ 6.2 │ financial crime │ │ Airport burger │ $34 │ 9.7 │ enters villain arc │ └────────────────────┴────────┴──────────────┴────────────────────┘ conclusion: burger inflation is a gateway condiment
- HarHarVeryFunny 5mo ago
  Thanks, so in this case the value of "code fomatting" is using a fixed-width font ? The next question is where did the "ASCII-art" graph and table come from? Are there sites to generate these?
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      Neat! If I use your tool and "Copy HN-ready" and paste here then it works, but oddly if I then edit the post the formatting is lost. Also, if I just manually post, starting with a blank line, followed by a couple of lines starting with two spaces (e.g. " aaa", " bbb"), then I'm not getting the <pre> code formatting. Any idea what I might be doing wrong?
      - Krysoph 5mo ago
        . I think HN strips starting blank lines, but it may work when done after a line with some char like: . edit test: 0 ┤ ╭───╮ Homer made burger │ │ ● │ ╭───╮ McBurger 2 ┤ ╰───╯ │ ○ │ ╭─────╮ │ ╰───╯ │ * │ Food truck burger 4 ┤ ╰─────╯ │ │ ╭─────╮ 6 ┤ │ ■ │ this was edited btw │ ╰─────╯ ╭─────╮ 8 ┤ Hairport burger │ ▲ │ │ ╰─────╯ 10 └┬────────────┬───────────┬────────────┬───────────┬────────────┬ $0 $8 $16 $24 $32 $40 Works fine for me, even after multiple edits the formatting stays the same ¯\(ツ)/¯
        HarHarVeryFunny 5mo ago
        Thanks - it was HN stripping starting blank lines (incl. after an edit).
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> Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is formatted as code. https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc crimes ↑ │ 10.0 ┤ ● Airport burger │ ╭──────────────╮ 8.0 ┤ │ theft arc │ │ ╰──────────────╯ 6.0 ┤ ● Five Guys │ 4.0 ┤ ● Food truck burger │ 2.0 ┤ ● McBurger │ 0.0 ┤ ● Homemade burger │ └───────┬─────────┬─────────┬─────────┬─────────→ price $2 $8 $14 $22 $38 ┌────────────────────┬────────┬──────────────┬────────────────────┐ │ burger │ price │ crime index │ expected behavior │ ├────────────────────┼────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────┤ │ Homemade burger │ $2 │ 0.0 │ law-abiding citizen│ │ McBurger │ $6 │ 1.4 │ steals extra napkin│ │ Food truck burger │ $11 │ 3.1 │ lies about hunger │ │ Five Guys │ $18 │ 6.2 │ financial crime │ │ Airport burger │ $34 │ 9.7 │ enters villain arc │ └────────────────────┴────────┴──────────────┴────────────────────┘ conclusion: burger inflation is a gateway condiment

HarHarVeryFunny 5mo ago
Thanks, so in this case the value of "code fomatting" is using a fixed-width font ? The next question is where did the "ASCII-art" graph and table come from? Are there sites to generate these?
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    Neat! If I use your tool and "Copy HN-ready" and paste here then it works, but oddly if I then edit the post the formatting is lost. Also, if I just manually post, starting with a blank line, followed by a couple of lines starting with two spaces (e.g. " aaa", " bbb"), then I'm not getting the <pre> code formatting. Any idea what I might be doing wrong?
    - Krysoph 5mo ago
      . I think HN strips starting blank lines, but it may work when done after a line with some char like: . edit test: 0 ┤ ╭───╮ Homer made burger │ │ ● │ ╭───╮ McBurger 2 ┤ ╰───╯ │ ○ │ ╭─────╮ │ ╰───╯ │ * │ Food truck burger 4 ┤ ╰─────╯ │ │ ╭─────╮ 6 ┤ │ ■ │ this was edited btw │ ╰─────╯ ╭─────╮ 8 ┤ Hairport burger │ ▲ │ │ ╰─────╯ 10 └┬────────────┬───────────┬────────────┬───────────┬────────────┬ $0 $8 $16 $24 $32 $40 Works fine for me, even after multiple edits the formatting stays the same ¯\(ツ)/¯
      - HarHarVeryFunny 5mo ago
        Thanks - it was HN stripping starting blank lines (incl. after an edit).
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