MultiMarkdown now supports tables

[Michel Fortin]

Fletcher T. Penney wrote:


> Learn more about it here:

>

>     http://fletcher.freeshell.org/wiki/MultiMarkdown


Nice.

As you said, I can see there are still some bugs. There is one thing  
I spotted in your documentation when you speak about alignement. You  
write:


> To set alignment, you can use a colon to designate left or right  

> alignment, or a colon at each end to designate center alignment, as  

> above. **If no colon is present, default is left alignment.**


(emphasis mine)

Which is partially wrong. If no colon is present (or more generally,  
if you're omitting the `align` attribute), *default text  
directionality* is used. For English, and other western languages,  
this means left-aligned, but for Arabic or Hebrew it will be right- 
aligned. Just add a `dir="rtl"` in the body of your page or directly  
on the table and you will see.

(Much more changes than text alignement when you add `dir="rtl"`:  
tables cells are actually displayed in reverse horizontal order too,  
right-to-left instead of left-to-right.)

Which makes me think that my syntax for cell alignement in a table is  
inverted when writing from right to left. If I write something that  
looks like this on a page with `dir="rtl"`:

     :---- | ----: | ----

It is in reality the same thing as this, in our usual left to right  
system:

      ---- | :---- | ----:

Which is what PHP Markdown Extra sees. In both cases the first cell  
is default-aligned, the second is left-aligned and the third is right- 
aligned. But in the right to left version (count the columns from the  
right), colons are displayed at the oposite end of how columns will  
be aligned.

Not that I worry about any of this, but it is an interesting thing to  
know. Also interesting to know is that Markdown *seems* to work well  
in those languages. Tested text I copy-pasted from other websites --  
I can't read or write Hebrew or Arabic -- and a custom right to left  
dingus page.


Michel Fortin
michel.fortin at michelf.com
http://www.michelf.com/