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Headless, MultiMarkdown or Pandoc visual table support
Hi all,
Would it be possible to support MultiMarkdown [1] or Pandoc [2] for tables do generate more powerful tables with features like colspan, for example, using the already great visual editor?
As described on this page [1], it allows you to create quite powerful tables, including things like colspan.
[1] https://fletcher.github.io/MultiMarkdown-5/tables.html#prototypetable [2] http://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#tables
I'm opposed to this because it is an extension that is incompatible with GFM and CommonMark, which Typora is supposed to adhere to. See #369.
The right approach is to lobby the GitHub or CommonMark folks to add support for the desired table features. If they reject it, there must be good reason that shouldn't be ignored.
The right approach is to lobby the GitHub or CommonMark folks to add support for the desired table features. If they reject it, there must be good reason that shouldn't be ignored.
I agree with you now. Where is the right place to lobby?
Since GitHub is committed to being a strict superset of CommonMark, they wouldn't add such support because that would violate that commitment.
So CommonMark.org would be whom you'd have to lobby. The place to do that is on the CommonMark forum. I'd first search the forum for an existing discussion on table nesting.
Maybe close this issue because there are too many open issues and this just adds noise :)
BTW, the author of Pandoc, John MacFarlane, is also the author of the CommonMark spec! So maybe even message him directly for his thoughts.
It would be great to to have the MultiMarkDown's File Transclusion. I would appreciate if you could help me know where is the best place to open a new feature request?
Joplin has already supported this feature now. I think it's an important extension.
