Show HN: A simple algorithm for drawing complex tables

Post by Snaipe » Tue, Jan 05, 2016, 11:53 AM UTC

Post by voaie » Tue, Jan 05, 2016, 1:15 PM UTC

Snaipe wrote: post #2

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.

Post by braindev » Thu, Jan 07, 2016, 1:41 AM UTC

fiatjaf wrote: post #4

This is great, but not a "Show HN".

Post by detaro » Thu, Jan 07, 2016, 2:25 AM UTC

evanpw wrote: post #6

braindev wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is it not a "Show HN"?

"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