greghendershott
Add markdown tables support
I am not sure how much work this involves, but I feel it would be great to have markdown table support. It is possible to work around by writing tables in HTML inside the markdown file.
For example:
| id | category | item |
|:---|:--------:|-----:|
|asas| asas | asas |
|asas| asas | asas |
|asas| asas | asas |
|asas| asas | asas |
|asas| asas | asas |
Is not recognized and the workaround is to write HTML tables:
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="left">left</td>
<td class="center">center</td>
<td class="right">right</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>a</td>
<td>b</td>
<td>c</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>d</td>
<td>e</td>
<td>f</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Other table syntaxes are also thinkable, like grid tables from ReST or Emacs Org mode tables, although I think standard markdown table syntax should have priority.
This is a copy-and-paste of https://github.com/greghendershott/frog/issues/217#issuecomment-388999185:
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In the context of Frog: My personal opinion is that if I need a table, I'd rather not write it in HTML or markdown. Instead I'd say, "this blog post would be a good one to write in Scribble format so I can write some Racket code to make the table."
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In the context of the markdown library as its own thing: It's a valid feature request. I guess I'm just reluctant to expand the scope. Writing a markdown parser turned out to be waaaaay more work than I imagined. These days I'm just happy there are no glaring bugs or performance issues. I'd rather not "poke the jello".
Hi @pmatos , I have been using this pull request: https://github.com/greghendershott/markdown/pull/56 without any problems in my blog.
@alex-hhh thanks - I will probably will be forking this repo to keep in sync with features I want to add for darwin.