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		Steltek on Feb 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Merma... > ASCII charts are very hard to format; you'll really need tools or editor plugins for that. Even with tools and plugins, creating tables in Markdown (in any flavor) is painful enough that I just don't even try. No one really expects to edit an image with a text editor but tables are tantalizing close. I'd sooner have ASCII inspired tables that are easier to edit than images and diagrams.

IggleSniggle on Feb 15, 2022 [–]

I do tables, but I will admit to having them auto-formatted on save. That is, I type a pipe separated list manually, and auto-space it on save.

anchpop on Feb 15, 2022 | [–]

IIRC vscode does this by default, definitely a really handy feature

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