What tools exist for generating "ASCII Tables", if any?
- by Billy ONeal
Consider a block like the following:
+-----------------------------------+--------------------------+
| In Baseline | Not in Baseline |
+---------------+===================================+==========================+
| In Parent # Do Not Report | Mark ACE as AlwaysReport |
+---------------+-----------------------------------+--------------------------+
| Not In Parent # Iff parent depth > baseline depth | Report Always |
+---------------+-----------------------------------+--------------------------+
I have seen tables like this used quite frequently. For instance, in Requests for Comments (RFC) documents, the standard format of the document is the text format. Another common case is embedding a small table like this into comments of source code.
Are there tools which can take a quick and dirty representation of this in Excel, or possibly some textual format, and format it as a table like this?
