Hello, Rick Frankel <r...@rickster.com> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 09:54:22AM -0600, Eric Schulte wrote: > >> Pandoc supports tables in markdown documents, maybe this would be a good >> syntax to target, as with pandoc markdown may be further exported to >> either HTML or LaTeX. >> >> http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#tables >> >> FWIW, it looks like pandoc also supports Org-mode tables. >> >> http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#pipe-tables >> > > There is a fairly standard set of extensions to the markdown syntax > called Markdown Extra, based on the extensions made for php: > > http://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/ > > however, a number of markdown processors support it, including > > multimarkdown: http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/ > > A couple of ruby processing libraries: > > http://kramdown.rubyforge.org/syntax.html > http://maruku.rubyforge.org/maruku.html > > Kramdown also support org table format. > > and python: http://pythonhosted.org/Markdown/extensions/extra.html > > I have used both ruby libraries extensively. It would be nice for the > markdown exporter to allow using the standard markdown extensions > (perhaps with a switch). This should happen in a derived back-end. There are a few Markdown flavours, ox-md.el is only "vanilla" Markdown. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou
