Re: simple table without formatting

On 20/02/2022 15:22, David Goodger wrote:
> 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 
> <https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#line-blocks>

Thanks. But that seems to be - as it says - for where the LINE structure 
is important. I don't care about the lines, it's a paragraph.
> 
> If it's something more complicated, ".. class:: borderless" preceding a 
> table may work.

Which is where Marcelo left me - sticking "..class:: borderless" before 
the table just prints "class borderless" before the table, and does 
absolutely nothing to the table itself ...
> 
> And it's not "malarkey", it's "markup".
> ;-)
> (but seriously, "malarkey" is derogatory, slightly insulting)
> 
I think I understand the sentiment there, but as far as I can make out 
this particular malarkey is not just markup, but it's python, css, and 
god knows what else, all of which I've never got to grips with. So if 
I'm using mildly offensive language, it's because I'm getting extremely 
frustrated with all these words where I understand perfectly what they 
SAY, but don't have a damn clue what they MEAN! :-)

Cheers,
Wol

> David Goodger
> 
> 
> David Goodger
> <https://david.goodger.org <https://david.goodger.org>>
> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 8:00 PM Wol <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[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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