Re: exporting markdown with tables

["Charles C. Berry" <ccberry@ucsd.edu>]

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 recognized as a table, so all the nifty tools 
for table editing are lost.

IMO, a better solution is to create a filter for table-row that replaces 
the leading vertical with a space (or nothing) and bind that function to 
`org-export-filter-table-row-functions'. See

 	(info "(org) Advanced configuration")


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However, those intimidated by filters can keep tables in org src blocks 
and convert them on export using a :post argument to clean the leading 
verticals.  That way the tables can be edited as usual via 
org-edit-src-code:

#+name: strip-leading-vertical
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(replace-regexp-in-string "^|" " " *this*)
#+END_SRC


#+header: :results replace :exports results
#+header: :post strip-leading-vertical() :wrap export md
#+BEGIN_SRC org
   | a | b |
   |---+---|
   | 1 | 2 |
   | 3 | 4 |
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS:
#+BEGIN_export md
   a | b |
  ---+---|
   1 | 2 |
   3 | 4 |
#+END_export

A call to `(require 'ob-org)' or suitable customization is needed to 
enable the org src block to execute.

HTH,

Chuck