executablebooks / MyST-Parser

An extended commonmark compliant parser, with bridges to docutils/sphinx
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Documentation about Tables appears to be wrong #814

Open diggidende opened 11 months ago

diggidende commented 11 months ago

Describe the gap in the current documentation

The documentation about tables suggests to use the following notation for tables with captions (see https://github.com/executablebooks/MyST-Parser/blob/master/docs/syntax/tables.md?plain=1#L40):

:::{table} Table caption
:widths: auto
:align: center

| foo | bar |
| --- | --- |
| baz | bim |
:::

But running Sphinx (with the MyST extension) to produce HTML does not produce the expected result, see screenshot (using the Furo theme): image

After replacing the colons ::: by backticks ``` (and removing :align: center - which is the default anyways) the results look as expected: image

Interestingly, on the same page in section 4, the documentation suggests to use backticks (rather than colons) for CSV tables, so there is some inconsistency (see https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/syntax/tables.html#csv-tables)

Describe the solution you'd like

Please review of the documentation of tables, and correct it where necessary.

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