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Best practices for posting tabular data
I am trying to find how tabular data is presented in Software Development. So far, I have found one question, How to pivot text?. The question presents tabular data using code blocks, dash to indicate a new row, pipe to indicate column separation and underscore to indicate an empty cell. I took the data from the referred question and set none as the programming language to prevent the text from being highlighted:
- PERSON 1 | PERSON 2 | YES
- PERSON 1 | PERSON 3 | YES
- PERSON 2 | PERSON 1 | YES
- PERSON 2 | PERSON 3 | YES
- PERSON 3 | PERSON 1 | NO
- PERSON 3 | PERSON 2 | NO
and
- _________| PERSON 1 | PERSON 2 | PERSON 3 |
- PERSON 1 | X | YES | YES |
- PERSON 2 | YES | X | YES |
- PERSON 3 | NO | NO | X |
Sometimes, including the column and row headers on spreadsheet-formula questions might be relevant. Below I'm using dashes (-) and a plus (+) character between columns to separate the column headers from the data below:
| A | B | C
--+----------+----------+-----
1 | PERSON 1 | PERSON 2 | YES
2 | PERSON 1 | PERSON 3 | YES
3 | PERSON 2 | PERSON 1 | YES
4 | PERSON 2 | PERSON 3 | YES
5 | PERSON 3 | PERSON 1 | NO
6 | PERSON 3 | PERSON 2 | NO
It bugs me a bit that the space between lines looks to be too big.
- Is there a better way to present tabular data?
- Is there a way to reduce the space between lines?
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I just found a post in Codidact Meta using showing a rendered table. Looking at the post content, it is using markdown.
Playing a bit, I found that the following "plain text" (intended to show markdown features, not to make it readable, maintainable, etc.)
| | | |
-|-|-
PERSON 1 | PERSON 2 | YES|
PERSON 1 | PERSON 3 | YES|
PERSON 2 | PERSON 1 | YES|
PERSON 2 | PERSON 3 | YES|
PERSON 3 | PERSON 1 | NO|
PERSON 3 | PERSON 2 | NO|
is rendered as follows:
Live demo:
| PERSON 1 | PERSON 2 | YES |
| PERSON 1 | PERSON 3 | YES |
| PERSON 2 | PERSON 1 | YES |
| PERSON 2 | PERSON 3 | YES |
| PERSON 3 | PERSON 1 | NO |
| PERSON 3 | PERSON 2 | NO |
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