Tables
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- cuneiform
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Tables
How do I put a table (like from an excel spreadsheet) into a post?
Re: Tables
Ossicone posted this handy little thing over in another part of the board:
I've never bothered much with fancy tables, usually just use notepad and then shove the entire thing into a "code" bracket, like I did in this particular post showing off one of the ways in which a Proto-Skawlas verb can conjugate.
From what I can gather, though, you can use Excel, OpenOffice, or anything like that, and you can upload the image to somewhere like imgur, or... okay I only know imgur but basically it's just a case of taking a screenshot of your table, uploading the image somewhere online, then use the image tag to share the image here
I've never bothered much with fancy tables, usually just use notepad and then shove the entire thing into a "code" bracket, like I did in this particular post showing off one of the ways in which a Proto-Skawlas verb can conjugate.
From what I can gather, though, you can use Excel, OpenOffice, or anything like that, and you can upload the image to somewhere like imgur, or... okay I only know imgur but basically it's just a case of taking a screenshot of your table, uploading the image somewhere online, then use the image tag to share the image here
You can tell the same lie a thousand times,
But it never gets any more true,
So close your eyes once more and once more believe
That they all still believe in you.
Just one time.
But it never gets any more true,
So close your eyes once more and once more believe
That they all still believe in you.
Just one time.
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- cuneiform
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Re: Tables
That's excellent! Thank you very much :)
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- cuneiform
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Re: Tables
How did you make your 'code table' so neat?
Re: Tables
I used Notepad on Windows which uses Courier New as its default font (the same font as appears when using code tags). All you ave to do there is just use spaces to align everything properly, and it will transfer over exactly the same way when using code tags. If you use a font that doesn't give letters, punctuation and spaces the same width you end up with something weird like:holbuzvala wrote:How did you make your 'code table' so neat?
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Aligned in Courier New:
| Svafnir | His Holiness | Kami | Kyu |
Feb 21st | 636 | 332 | 48 | 19 |
Feb 28th | | 322 | 52 | 19 |
March 6th | | 322 | 52 | 19 |
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Aligned (ish) in Times New Roman:
| Svafnir | His Holiness | Kami | Kyu |
Feb 21st | 636 | 332 | 48 | 19 |
Feb 28th | | 322 | 52 | 19 |
March 6th | | 322 | 52 | 19 |
EDIT: Also, practice The more you make tables the more you'll get a better feel of how to arrange the space better, whether that's in Excel, and OpenOffice spreadsheet or in Notepad.
You can tell the same lie a thousand times,
But it never gets any more true,
So close your eyes once more and once more believe
That they all still believe in you.
Just one time.
But it never gets any more true,
So close your eyes once more and once more believe
That they all still believe in you.
Just one time.
Re: Tables
One could also use a tool such as this one: https://ozh.github.io/ascii-tables/, which can make life a lot less hell.
At kveldi skal dag lęyfa,
Konu es bręnnd es,
Mæki es ręyndr es,
Męy es gefin es,
Ís es yfir kømr,
Ǫl es drukkit es.
Konu es bręnnd es,
Mæki es ręyndr es,
Męy es gefin es,
Ís es yfir kømr,
Ǫl es drukkit es.