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Subject: Re: exporting markdown with tables
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 16:31:25 +0000
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To: Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>
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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:

#+BEGIN_EXPORT md
| Name   | Years |
| Edward |    44 |
| Sylvia |    45 |
#+END_EXPORT

On export to Markdown the tables will be kept unmodified as Org syntax.

It is important that you know which flavor of Markdown you're
targeting, because not all versions accept tables in Org syntax.
Pandoc's Markdown have a similar syntax for "pipe tables". However,
you may type all tables in any syntax accepted by your Markdown
version and keep them wrapped in #+BEGIN_EXPORT tags.

2017-06-03 13:41 GMT+00:00 Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>:
>
> 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 edit the resulting files.
>
> Is there a way to get org to export to markdown using md's table syntax?
>
> (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.)
>
> Thanks,
> -pd
>
>