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Show HN: A simple algorithm for drawing complex tables (snai.pe)
25 points by Snaipe 3823 days ago
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Snaipe 3823 days 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

As always, suggestions are welcome.

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voaie 3823 days ago
Great tutorial with pictures! I'd like to see the tutorial for ascii2table too.
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fiatjaf 3821 days ago
This is great, but not a "Show HN".
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braindev 3821 days ago
Why is it not a "Show HN"?
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evanpw 3821 days 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

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detaro 3821 days ago
The example code is on GitHub (linked at the end of the post), so you can try it out.
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