Tables

[John MacFarlane]

+++ Daniel Winterstein [Feb 18 09 08:01 ]:

> Are there any standards emerging for how to represent tables in Markdown?


The only "standard" way is to use HTML.

Different extensions to markdown syntax have made different
decisions about tables:

http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#tables
http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/extra/#table
http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/users_guide/multimarkdown_syntax_guide/

If you look in the archives of this list, you'll find some discussion
of the pros and cons of various approaches.  But there's no emerging
standard, to my knowledge.

John