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edwardtufte / tufte-css

Style your webpage like Edward Tufte’s handouts.
https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/
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No styling for table elements anymore? #160

Closed trosel closed 4 years ago

trosel commented 4 years ago

When brash, young Tufte CSS handled tables, our solution for situations such as this was Trebuchet. I think that would suit your case well.

Originally posted by @daveliepmann in https://github.com/edwardtufte/tufte-css/issues/97#issuecomment-244115343

Does Tufte no longer include any styling for table elements? If not, can you recommend an alternative?

daveliepmann commented 4 years ago

You’re right, Tufte CSS now basically abstains from tables entirely. After some experimentation we realized that the task required more nuance than fit within this project’s constraints.

One particular challenge with tables that I think more people should meditate on is that our source material very clearly advises us to design tables as best suits a particular use case. So providing just a single set of table styles would have been insufficient. We are left to start from first principles in each instance.

I can’t recommend a particular alternative, because I haven’t worked on this kind of thing for years. These days I either take the commodified table styles that some library provides, or a designer on my team creates a custom solution. Sorry.

trosel notifications@github.com schrieb am Mo. 7. Sept. 2020 um 18:55:

When brash, young Tufte CSS handled tables https://github.com/edwardtufte/tufte-css/tree/94ac0dfc49729269523b9234c853b27f5458d6f2, our solution for situations such as this was Trebuchet. I think that would suit your case well.

*Originally posted by @daveliepmann https://github.com/daveliepmann in

97 (comment)

https://github.com/edwardtufte/tufte-css/issues/97#issuecomment-244115343*

Does Tufte no longer include any styling for table elements? If not, can you recommend an alternative?

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