Re: [O] exporting markdown with tables

Thanks to all for the responses here. They have opened my eyes to new org features I can use in other ways. For now, I think my solution to the table export question will be just to keep everything in org mode and to heck with Editorial and Markdown. Thanks! -pd -- Peter Davis

Re: [O] exporting markdown with tables

On Sun, 4 Jun 2017, Vicente Vera wrote: Cool, you're welcome. It is not the most convenient solution, but keeping your tables in Editorial Markdown syntax should work: #+BEGIN_EXPORT md Cat | Fur | --- | --- | A | A lot | B | None | #+END_EXPORT Except that the above is not

Re: [O] exporting markdown with tables

Cool, you're welcome. It is not the most convenient solution, but keeping your tables in Editorial Markdown syntax should work: #+BEGIN_EXPORT md Cat | Fur | --- | --- | A | A lot | B | None | #+END_EXPORT 2017-06-03 16:46 GMT+00:00 Peter Davis : > Thanks, Vincente.

Re: [O] exporting markdown with tables

On Sat, Jun 03 2017, Peter Davis wrote: (FWIW, I tried using pandoc, but this just removed the table syntax altogether, so an entire table would just run together into a paragraph of gibberish.) You need a somewhat recent version of Pandoc for Org tables to be handled correctly (some

Re: [O] exporting markdown with tables

Thanks, Vincente. I'm specifically aiming at the Markdown syntax supported by the Editorial app, which does include markup for tables. Unfortunately, it looks like Editorial's Markdown doesn't use the initial '|', so simply exporting the org markup won't work without some editing. Thanks! -pd On

Re: [O] exporting markdown with tables

There are several Markdown "forks" which have different sets of features. AFAIK the markdown exporter in Org is based upon John Gruber's Markdown, which does not include a syntax for tables. Thus all tables in Org documents get exported as HTML. A workaround is to wrap your Org tables as:

[O] exporting markdown with tables

I'd like to be able to move easily between org-mode and the IOS app Editorial, which is mainly based around markdown syntax. I can easily export markdown from org-mode, but the tables seems to come through as straight HTML, as opposed to markdown's table syntax. This makes it more difficult to