Prepend whitespace before each line for Markdown code block?

[victorhooi]

Would it be possible to add an option to prepend whitespace before each line?

The use case for this is to create a Markdown code block. In my case, I'm trying to create a Hubot script to insert an ASCII table into a Flowdock chat, using ascii-table.

Flowdock can create a code block (which will use mono-spaced font), however, each line needs to be pre-pended with four space characters. Stackoverflow also uses a similar system (four spaces), as does Github.

Is it possible to add an option to allow you to pad the beginning each line with spaces? E.g.

.----------------.
|    A Title     |
|----------------|
|   | Name | Age |
|---|------|-----|
| 1 | Bob  |  52 |
| 2 | John |  34 |
| 3 | Jim  |  83 |
'----------------'

Ok, the above will probably render as a code block, lol, but you get what I mean. Four spaces at the beginning of each line?

[sorensen]

Shouldn't be too much of a problem, I am getting married this weekend so I will try to get this done next week. It would need a method to set a prefix val, then apply the prefix on the toString method for each body.push.

[victorhooi]

Hope the nuptials went smoothly =).

Just wondering - any update on this one?

[sorensen]

@victorhooi sorry for the delay, I've added a constructor options object that you can specify a prefix with.

var table = new AsciiTable('Title', { prefix: '     ' })