5 ms·
> 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/form
by Krysoph 4mo 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 4mo agoThanks, 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?
- deleted 4mo ago[deleted]
- deleted 4mo ago[deleted]
- Krysoph 4mo ago[dead]
- deleted 4mo ago[deleted]
- HarHarVeryFunny 4mo agoNeat! 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 4mo 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 4mo agoThanks - it was HN stripping starting blank lines (incl. after an edit).
- HarHarVeryFunny 4mo agofoo aa bb
- deleted 4mo ago[deleted]
- deleted 4mo ago[deleted]
- deleted 4mo ago[deleted]
- deleted 4mo ago[deleted]
- deleted 4mo ago[deleted]
- deleted 4mo ago[deleted]