StackExchange
Support for Markdown Extra
PHP Markdown Extra (http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/extra/) is a great
extension to markdown which supports table, definition list, header id and
abbreviation, tables and definition lists are especially usefull when writing
blogs and other types of documents, so it would be nice to support it.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 22 Feb 2012 at 7:05
Please please please add support for this extension. Markdown's inability to
support basic tables and definition lists is the single reason I don't adopt
Pagedown/Markdown for my projects.
Original comment by [email protected] on 2 Mar 2012 at 6:50
I ported the table code from php-markdown extra to JavaScript.
https://github.com/bootstraponline/js_markdown_tables/blob/master/table.html
If there's any interest then I'll integrate it into pagedown and submit a patch.
Original comment by [email protected] on 5 Jul 2012 at 5:38
Would be very useful to me, but I haven't looked into pagedown's organization
much to know what's involved in integrating.
Original comment by [email protected] on 6 Jul 2012 at 4:35
I added pagedown integration. test_pagedown.html is an example of using
pagedown with table support. Let me know what you think.
https://github.com/bootstraponline/js_markdown_tables/commit/7a80269383c17890feb
638685e493ce13b3f77bd
Original comment by [email protected] on 6 Jul 2012 at 5:47
+1 for definition lists.
MultiMarkdown (http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/features/) is another
project with extensions. I particularly like the automatic cross-reference
feature for linking within the document.
Original comment by [email protected] on 22 Jul 2012 at 1:06
I'd love to see this too. For now the only way is to define a post-conversion
hook which includes the algorithm for converting | --- | etc into html table
elements?
Original comment by [email protected] on 21 Oct 2012 at 10:44
I really need tables to be included for training City Content Writers on how to
write content for Honolulu Answers:
http://answers.honolulu.gov/quick_answers/how-do-i-renew-my-driver-license .
Desperately!
Original comment by [email protected] on 25 Oct 2012 at 8:13
Pagedown's primary purpose is to render markdown on stackoverflow, and the
stackoverflow guys don't want tables breaking their layout, so it seems
unlikely this will be added in the near future. Instead of trying to get
extensions added to the official repo or maintaining a fork, I created a simple
plugin which can be found at http://github.com/jmcmanus/pagedown-extra. It's
super easy to use. You just `Markdown.Extra.init(converter, options)` and then
the converter will recognize the supported extensions. Tables and
github-inspired code blocks are the only extensions supported atm, but adding
others should be fairly straightforward.
Original comment by [email protected] on 30 Jan 2013 at 7:09