> > xxx yyy > > xxx yyy > > > > xxx yyy > > xxx yyy > > Sorry, I'm not seeing a problem here. As long as both tables have > left-aligned problems, what's the issue?
The latter version looks worse IMHO; at least there are high chances that it doesn't reflect the author's original intentions. Just think of a multi-column table, each with additional whitespace -- it probably becomes wider than the document width. Especially with TTY output, horizontal space is quite precious. Werner