Create ASCII art tables

Question

Create ASCII art tables

Required:

• Merged cells (horizontally, vertically, both)
• Centering (horizontally, vertically, both)
• Free as in beer
• Easy input

Nice to have:

• Arbitrary alignment (horizontally, vertically, both)
• Automated row numbering
• Automated sorting
• Platform: Cloud/Web (on stable, reliable host), Google Sheets, VS Code, Sublime Text or Excel
• FLOSS + public repository + actively developed + taking feature requests + accepting contributions

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Example table: Windows Tool for automatic regular screenshots

Simple version inline:

+----+---------------------+-----------------------+---------------+---------------+
|    |                     |           A           |       B       |       C       |
+ Nr +         Name        +-----------------------+---------------+---------------+
|    |                     | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
+----+---------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|  1 | Very very long name |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
+----+---------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|  2 | Short name          |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
+----+---------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+

Answer 1

Plain Text Table suits most of your requirements. It's free and open sourced

Use the tool online

Please visit : http://plaintexttools.github.io/plain-text-table

Features

• Interactive input table (using handsontable)
• Unicode or ASCII output
• Flexible border configuration
• Merged cell support (colspan and rowspan)
• Multiline text in the cells
• Text alignement support (horizontal and vertical)
• Predefined style

All configuration options explained in the user manual.

It also supports automatic numbering