Pretty printing the |-separated result fields

[Fraasi]

Depending on what you search, you might get these kind of result fields:

$ wac orange fruit
...
Vitamins:
   | | mean value | % daily value | range
  vitamin A | orange | 17 μg | 1% | (15 to 18) μg
   | fruit | 24 μg | 2% | (0 to 237) μg
  vitamin C | orange | 78 mg | 130% | (63 to 100) mg
   | fruit | 68 mg | 114% | (0.0014 to 2.3) g

Minerals:
   | | mean value | % daily value | range
  calcium | orange | 66 mg | 7% | (56 to 98) mg
   | fruit | 32 mg | 3% | (1.4 to 301) mg
  iron | orange | 340 μg | 2% | (0.13 to 1.1) mg
   | fruit | 801 μg | 4% | (0 to 3.9) mg
...

These are too hard to read, you can pipe the whole output to column -t -s'|', but that formats the whole output so that the first column is as wide as the widest sentence in the whole output... so this is useful for only in certain occasion. eg:

$ wac zodiac signs | column -t -s'|'
Input interpretation:
  traditional zodiacal signs
Result:
  Aries                        ♈    March 21- April 19
  Taurus                       ♉    April 20 - May 20
  Gemini                       ♊    May 21 - June 20
...

So the only way to fix this, is to format the result in jq, BUT...

• You can't call shell commands from within jq. ten year old open issue...
• You can't printf in jq. nine year old issue...
• AND then there is this issue

Might have to rewrite this in another language... Sigh.