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 <p...@pfdstudio.com>: > 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 Sat, Jun 3, 2017, at 12:31 PM, Vicente Vera wrote: >> 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 <p...@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 >> > >> > > > > -- > Peter Davis > www.techcurmudgeon.com >
