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by kragen 717 days ago
usually the issue with that image is not its byte size (it's 4 megs) but its ram usage (about 100 megapixels)

my best thought on how to handle proportional fonts is a slight variant on nick gravgaard's 'elastic tabstops'; i think we should use tabs to separate columns and \v and \f as delimiters to nest tables, so that we can do pre-css-style html nested table layout in plain ascii text files