Linearize Tables option

[Atherton25]

I've been reading a lot of LitRPG's lately, some from online forums, some published books. Both seem to have a similar issue, the tables they tend to have. When reading on my kindle some of these tables are so huge they take multiple pages - and because it's all one table it's really difficult to deal with. Thus, I've turned on linearize tables option and it mostly works.

The problem is the tables which May be something like this (in a real table not makeshift I've done below, I'm not sure if a table can be placed in a post)

|--------|---------|--------|
|Name | Race | Sex |
|--------|---------|--------|
|Racer | Gnome | Male |
|--------|---------|--------|

Into something like this:

NameRaceSex
RacerGnomeMale

If that's not clear enough, its running every row together...

Is there a way to create a separator when using the Linearize Table option? Even adding a space between the words would be wonderful, but making an option for a separator (such as " | " or " : " ... maybe give an option?) I've looked to try and find a way to do it, and can find nothing on the forums or within the options.

[kovidgoyal]

Linearize tables is actually meant for books that use tables to layout the main text, not to make normal html tables legibile.

You can probably make it work with some extra CSS, though I'm not sure if the kindle will support that or not.

Something like,

td { margin-right: 1em !important }

in the extra css section of the conversion dialog.

[Atherton25]

The problem with tables on a kindle is long tables don't show the entire table. A table can only take up a page, so a long table wont show up on the next page. There's a option that you can tap it and supposedly move it. Sometimes it works, but most of the time it doesn't work well, and on long tables it is extremely difficult to do.

That's what the problem I was having was. I will see if the option does anything, but I don't think it'll do what I was trying to explain.