Feature request: Control over table column alignment

This might be tricky to implement, but I figure there’s no harm in asking: would it be possible to add right and center alignment to table columns?

I use a lot of tables in my screens, and most of them hold numeric values, and those columns are supposed to be right-aligned according to the design spec, to ensure clarity when scanning through values. But there’s no way to show that in the rendered tables, which means my screenshots and demos are contradicting the spec.

I’m imagining a bit of markup in the first line of the table’s text content, something like:

Alpha,Beta,]Gamma,]Delta

text,text,number,number

Where the “]” or maybe a right-angle-bracket would be the cue to right-align the column’s content. Presumably, style statements would do the dirty work in the HTML.

Is this practical? It would make the tables a lot more realistic.

Thanks.