On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 09:54:22AM -0600, Eric Schulte wrote:
> Pandoc supports tables in markdown documents, maybe this would be a good
> syntax to target, as with pandoc markdown may be further exported to
> either HTML or LaTeX.
>
> http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#tables
>
> FWIW, it looks like pandoc also supports Org-mode tables.
>
> http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#pipe-tables
>
There is a fairly standard set of extensions to the markdown syntax
called Markdown Extra, based on the extensions made for php:
http://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/
however, a number of markdown processors support it, including
multimarkdown: http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/
A couple of ruby processing libraries:
http://kramdown.rubyforge.org/syntax.html
http://maruku.rubyforge.org/maruku.html
Kramdown also support org table format.
and python: http://pythonhosted.org/Markdown/extensions/extra.html
I have used both ruby libraries extensively. It would be nice for the
markdown exporter to allow using the standard markdown extensions
(perhaps with a switch).
rick
