Add syntax for general ascii tables

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These tables could include arbitrary lists of blocks in each cell.

+------------------------+------------+----------+----------+
| Header row, column 1   | Header 2   | Header 3 | Header 4 |
+------------------------+------------+----------+----------+
| body row 1, column 1   | column 2   | column 3 | column 4 |
| and more col 1         |            |          | and more |
| and more               | and more   | and more |   col4   |
+------------------------+------------+----------+----------+
| body row 2             | Cells may span column |          |
+------------------------+------------+----------+----------+

Look at reStructuredText's table syntax as a paradigm.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by fiddloso...@gmail.com on 4 Jan 2008 at 8:21

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Just for reference, this seems to have an overview:
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickref.html#tables

And this has the complete specification:
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#tables

Original comment by ptanim...@gmail.com on 6 Mar 2009 at 2:42

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I could see this as being useful for dealing with docs that contain these sorts 
of
tables which you intend on converting to pandoc's markdown. Emacs has a mode for
creating these sorts of tables. The MySQL client makes these kinds of tables.
However, I think the table format that pandoc currently supports beats other 
formats
in terms of elegance and ease of reading as plain text. (The only improvement I 
can
see would be implementing the request I made in issue 156
http://code.google.com/p/pandoc/issues/detail?id=156 . )

So, I think it might be useful to have a pandoc option that would convert other 
table
formats into the kind specified for pandoc's markdown. That is, something along 
the
lines of, "filter this text file, and every time you see a grid-style table, 
turn it
into a pandoc-markdown-style table".

Original comment by inky...@gmail.com on 22 Jul 2009 at 6:47

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Now that the rST reader has support for grid tables, it shouldn't be hard to 
add this to 
the markdown reader. 

Original comment by fiddloso...@gmail.com on 27 Feb 2010 at 8:48

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Grid tables have been added to markdown, as of commit 
cbac17cfd20ead56def539fdf0817b1297f36833.

Original comment by fiddloso...@gmail.com on 7 Jul 2010 at 6:06

• Changed state: Fixed