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Subject:    Re: On simplifying table syntax in any future markdown extension. (Use CSV)
From:       "Fletcher T. Penney" <fletcher () fletcherpenney ! net>
Date:       2014-09-06 8:13:55
Message-ID: 4EF20C8F-A899-485D-81AA-217B48B4D650 () fletcherpenney ! net
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I don't plan on adding this to MultiMarkdown. 

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> On Sep 5, 2014, at 11:50 PM, mofo syne <mofosyne@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I see, well hopefully more implementation will support at least:
> 
> > header | header | header
> > ------------------------
> > cell | cell | cell
> 
> Still how difficult would it be to just have:
> 
> header | header | header
> ------------------------
> cell | cell | cell
> cell | cell | cell
> 
> as the basic 'base pipe table'? Since it's the lowest common
> denominator of table writing that is still easy to visually parse that
> I can think of.
> 
> The reason I think it could be possible is that pandoc already does this:
> 
> Right     Left     Center     Default
> -------     ------ ----------   -------
> 12     12        12            12
> 123     123       123          123
> 1     1          1             1
> 
> Table:  Demonstration of simple table syntax.
> 
> simple table src: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html
> 
> Which in itself already requires "context" to recognise it as a table
> (It however it lacks even a `|` character. Which I think should be
> discouraged)
> 
> > On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 4:11 AM, Michel Fortin <michel.fortin@michelf.ca> wrote:
> > > Le 5-sept.-2014 à 13:34, mofo syne <mofosyne@gmail.com> a écrit :
> > > 
> > > I see. So it's a bit too idealistic in terms of the practicality of \
> > > implementing csv inspired tables. 
> > > How's Tom other second and third examples? Both uses pipes and I preferred the \
> > > second version. However the --------- is mistaken for a h1 header according to \
> > > babelmark. Second examples of a single |-----| means only the first row of the \
> > > cell data is displayed or pandoc. 
> > > I'm guessing the biggest issue about implementing with "------" is that parsing \
> > > such tables require processing the context.
> > 
> > Actually, if you start with a pipe character on each line, you don't need to add \
> > more pipes on the separator line with Markdown Extra. Tom's last suggestion \
> > already works, and so does this one: 
> > > header | header | header
> > > ------------------------
> > > cell | cell | cell
> > 
> > Well, for PHP Markdown Extra and a couple more at least.
> > 
> > http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/?normalize=1&text=%7C+header+%7C+header+%7C+header%0A%7C+------------------------%0A%7C+cell+%7C+cell+%7C+cell
> >  
> > --
> > Michel Fortin
> > michel.fortin@michelf.ca
> > http://michelf.ca
> > 
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