If you want to have tables in your gemtext, just burn them in:
gemini://gemi.dev/gemlog/2023-06-30-tables-in-gemtext.gmi
6 months ago ยท ๐ sugar, tm85, jsreed5, danrl, mozz, gritty
[1] gemini://gemi.dev/gemlog/2023-06-30-tables-in-gemtext.gmi
we need to embrace the simplicity of gemini and not make it a do-it-all. burned in tables work just fine.
however, if clients want to render, they still can. a somewhat good heuristic can detect the most popular types of burned in tables and offer to render them differently. works for most cases, which is good enough. gemini is a lot about good enough and less about perfection. ยท 6 months ago
I took this exact approach when I needed to render a table in one of my math articles: gemini://jsreed5.org/math/20220302-generating-crossed-ladders/ ยท 6 months ago