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On a similar note, here are all instances of a different actor portraying a young Liz:
Is there a tool that helps with making tables? I know the markdown to do it, but it's still a confusing mess to work with.
All that I can think of is this tool that someone posted recently:
https://thisdavej.com/copy-table-in-excel-and-paste-as-a-markdown-table/
You copy a range of cells from somewhere like Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, LibreOffice Calc, etc., then paste into this website, and it reformats it as a markdown table.
But myself, I am comfortable enough with markdown to just type it out manually directly into a Lemmy comment. Though for a markdown table that is relatively large (like the one above), I generally create it from scratch in a separate text editor program and then copy/paste it into Lemmy. A text editor is just a larger space to work in and has things like find/replace to make things go faster.
If you have any specific questions/problems, I am happy to help!
Thanks! I'll bookmark that tool for later and give it a try.
Usually I do okay-ish typing them in directly, sometimes I use the table template button the app to get started, but when putting in long text like image links, it gets ugly fast and stuff starts to break.
That's what I do, and turning off word wrap helps a lot.
In that case, I think that tool should prove very helpful. Starting off in a spreadsheet program like Excel is great for keeping things neat/tidy/readable, then you would use that tool to convert to markdown when you are finished and ready to post the table to Lemmy.
That is sort of how I manage my GIF todo list and the markdown list that I publish on Codeberg. I have a LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet that I use as my todo list, adding new ideas to it as they come to my attention and then marking them off as I complete them. Then, when I am done for the day, I have a custom Python script that I run that reads all the cells in the spreadsheet, rearranges things a bit, and outputs it as a markdown table into the file you see on Codeberg.
EDIT: @ptz@dubvee.org could possibly even build that functionality right into Tesseract, allowing you to copy from Excel and paste directly into a Tesseract textbox as a markdown table.
I think my main use-case would be a 2x4 (or 2x6 or 2x8) table with images and captions so I don't have to use an image editor to make custom scenes. Basically I wanna take some of your gifs and mash them together into something like a 4-panel comic / scene.
Oh that would be cool. I'll ask!