On simplifying table syntax in any future markdown extension. (Use CSV)

[Fletcher T. Penney]

I don't plan on adding this to MultiMarkdown. 

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> On Sep 5, 2014, at 11:50 PM, mofo syne <mofosyne at 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 at michelf.ca> wrote:
>>> Le 5-sept.-2014 à 13:34, mofo syne <mofosyne at 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 at michelf.ca
>> http://michelf.ca
>> 
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