Re: Tables not converted to markdown format with markdown exporter

[Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com>]

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Roland Everaert <reveatwork@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Since a few weeks we use mattermost at work and I had recently to post a table to a team channel. I have created my table with org-mode, but when I export it to markdown format, the table is converted to html instead of markdown.
>
> Is there any reason to that, except the simple fact that table conversion is not implemented yet?
>
> As the markdown format is quite similar to the org-mode format regarding tables, I don't really see where could lie the difficulty.
>
> Example:
> - org format
>
> | column 1  | column 2       | column 3        |
> |-----------+----------------+-----------------|
> | some text | some more text | event more text |
> | blah      | 45             | fgf             |
>
> - markdown format
> | column 1  | column 2       | column 3        |
> |-----------|----------------|-----------------|
> | some text | some more text | event more text |
> | blah      | 45             | fgf             |
>
> This is obviously a very simple example, but usually, with mattermost, one doesn't post very complex messages.
>
> Regards.

AFAIK markdown can't do tables. Any search of google won't show any ways
of doing markdown-tables because its not available on markdown.

Sorry. I guess its back to the drawing board then?

Thanks
Sharon.
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