Re: simple table without formatting

It appears that you're constructing an ordered list whose content contains
line breaks. Maybe this will do what you want:

1. | I now want this
   | text properly left aligned.

See
https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#line-blocks

If it's something more complicated, ".. class:: borderless" preceding a
table may work.

And it's not "malarkey", it's "markup".
;-)
(but seriously, "malarkey" is derogatory, slightly insulting)

David Goodger


David Goodger
<https://david.goodger.org>


On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 8:00 PM Wol <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm trying to create a simple table, the sort that one would do on a
> typewriter using tabs. How on earth do you do it!
>
> Something simple like
>
> 1.      I now want this
>         text properly left aligned.
>
> Note that there is NO boxing around it - from what I can make out as
> soon as you tell Sphinx "this is a table" it goes and makes the table
> structure visible! But it's not a table I want - I just want tab
> indented text or similar!
>
> But as soon as I attempt to treat it like tab-indented, all my
> indentation gets screwed up and I end up with something like
>
> 1. I now want this
>        text properly left aligned.
>
> This is oh so simple with tabs or fixed width fonts - why do so many
> modern systems find it almost impossible!
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
>
>
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