For example this test:
echo '<table><tr><th colspan="2">A</th><th>B</th></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td></tr></table>' | html2text --pad-tables
Output is currently weirdly mangled with incorrect columns:
A | B
----|----
1 | 2 | 3
Today I learned: markdown bizarrely has no defined way of dealing with colspan or rowspan. The correct syntax is undefined here, but adding a blank dummy cell seems to be the best option at the moment, so the output should be:
A | | B
---|---|---
1 | 2 | 3
Or as shown here in github's implementation of markdown:
For example this test:
echo '<table><tr><th colspan="2">A</th><th>B</th></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td></tr></table>' | html2text --pad-tablesOutput is currently weirdly mangled with incorrect columns:
Today I learned: markdown bizarrely has no defined way of dealing with colspan or rowspan. The correct syntax is undefined here, but adding a blank dummy cell seems to be the best option at the moment, so the output should be:
Or as shown here in github's implementation of markdown: