Re: [O] exporting markdown with tables

[Peter Davis]

Thanks, Vincente.

I'm specifically aiming at the Markdown syntax supported by the Editorial app, which does include markup for tables. Unfortunately, it looks like Editorial's Markdown doesn't use the initial '|', so simply exporting the org markup won't work without some editing.

Thanks!

-pd

On Sat, Jun 3, 2017, at 12:31 PM, Vicente Vera wrote:

> There are several Markdown "forks" which have different sets of features.

>

> AFAIK the markdown exporter in Org is based upon John Gruber's

> Markdown, which does not include a syntax for tables. Thus all tables

> in Org documents get exported as HTML.

>

> A workaround is to wrap your Org tables as:

>

> #+BEGIN_EXPORT md

> | Name   | Years |

> | Edward |    44 |

> | Sylvia |    45 |

> #+END_EXPORT

>

> On export to Markdown the tables will be kept unmodified as Org syntax.

>

> It is important that you know which flavor of Markdown you're

> targeting, because not all versions accept tables in Org syntax.

> Pandoc's Markdown have a similar syntax for "pipe tables". However,

> you may type all tables in any syntax accepted by your Markdown

> version and keep them wrapped in #+BEGIN_EXPORT tags.

>

> 2017-06-03 13:41 GMT+00:00 Peter Davis <address@hidden>:

> >

> > I'd like to be able to move easily between org-mode and the IOS app Editorial, which is mainly based around markdown syntax. I can

> > easily export markdown from org-mode, but the tables seems to come through as straight HTML, as opposed to markdown's table

> > syntax. This makes it more difficult to edit the resulting files.

> >

> > Is there a way to get org to export to markdown using md's table syntax?

> >

> > (FWIW, I tried using pandoc, but this just removed the table syntax altogether, so an entire table would just run together into a

> > paragraph of gibberish.)

> >

> > Thanks,

> > -pd

> >

> >

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