-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El 2024-01-29 a las 07:44 -0000, Robert Webb escribió: Using a pure plain text client this time.
_Tables_ On Sun, 28 Jan 2024 23:33:23 +0100, "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
Hmm, if I look at the plain text part I see:
filename bytes timestamp fooo 0 today
Means Thunderbird doesn't create a fully correct text part.
(the leading spaces are tab characters, BTW) [...]
If you do want to create a plain text table, you don't need to manually align it. Using your example, converted from the plain text part 'plain_text' of your original email to 'tabs.tbl', the 'column' command with '-t' option will align the columns using spaces:
$ thunderbird_plain_to_tab_table() { # For each input line, a leading tab indicates the next column # of the same row. A non-tabbed line is a new row.
Hum. Too Cumbersome :-) This is the correct table using tabs: filename bytes timestamp fooo 0 today I already had to use two tabs on the zero to align it. Or with spaces: filename bytes timestamp fooo 0 today This time it is easy. If I am creating a real world table with a proper editor, the editor would know about the columns and flow the text inside the "virtual cell". I have not seen such an editor (plain text editor) that does that in many years. I think wordstar could do that. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, sollicitudin euismod purus. consectetur adipiscing elit. Maecenas vel feugiat neque. Integer sodales porttitor Cras auctor imperdiet sapien, nulla, eu viverra neque. vel elementum nibh ornare a. Nullam libero tellus, porta Sed vitae ultrices ante. placerat ante nec, The html composer in Thunderbird gives me back that lost feature in a trivial manner. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCZbeRuBwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVxy4AoIUsH8cmKxpKzQcMyfQf b5Lx+zVaAJ9+pnfH7izMmbC7U2EJZ/hnCdojfw== =J6PX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----