Markdown table support in markdown

[z-george-ma]

Just wondering, is it possible to have markdown tables supported in FsNotes? Something like -

id	type	price
1	apple	$2

[davistech]

Agree. Table support is important.

[gingerbeardman]

Agreed table support is important.

The issue here is that tables are an extension to the original Markdown spec, or the current CommonMark spec. MultiMarkdown introduced a table syntax extension to Markdown and GitHub Flavored Markdown continues uses that syntax through an extension to CommonMark.

Thus, it is not possible to find a Markdown syntax highlighter that supports tables. So this would need changes to the syntax highlighter used by FSNotes: highlight.js development of which has pretty much stalled. A good alternative to highlight.js is proving to be elusive. See #130 for that.

Maybe we can do without table syntax highlighting…

But tables would also need changes to the Markdown renderer used by FSNotes, Down, which follows the CommonMark spec (therefore: no tables) and their response on this issue is a polite “it’s possible, because GitHub have done it, but we won’t be doing it ourselves”: johnxnguyen/Down#36

[gingerbeardman]

Just to keep relevant information together:

Table extension code to cmark, by GitHub
commonmark/cmark@master...github:master

[glushchenko]

Added in 2.5.6 for macOS and 2.5.0 for iOS

[gingerbeardman]

Works for me.

2.5.6 macOS