Errors in AWK script converting in-source jspwiki to markdown

[snomos]

The first test docs can be found in lang-sma - scroll to Documentation and click In-source documentation. The following things should be fixed:

• [x] tables
• [x] definition lists
• [x] nested lists
• [x] numbered lists
• [x] boldface in all cases

Add more bugs to the list above as they are found, and we can check them off as they get fixed.

[flammie]

tables can be a non-trivial problem, github probably requires a header row for all tables underlined, I noticed this is more lenient in jekyll which renders more broken tables.

th1	th2
td1	td2
td3	td4

works

| td1 | td2 |

does not?

[snomos]

Yes, it seems so. That is, we need to convert:

|| header || text
| table  | content

to:

| header | text
| --- | ---
| table  | content

with an equal number of | --- sequences as the number of columns, and such that the top row is not reprocessed as a regular table line.

[snomos]

In cases where there is no header row, the only thing we can do is go and fix the source manually, IMHO. That will also make the table easier to read.

[snomos]

The present state of the table header conversion code is now as follows:

• it works partially, but the non-border ||'s are left as is, which is interpreted as an extra column, we thus need a way to change them into single bars
• the header separator row (required for gfmd table rendering) is hard-coded to two columns - I have no idea on how to make it dynamic using (G)AWK

If you can fix these two things, that would be a big YAY! @flammie

[snomos]

This seems to work as it should, and have been for a while. Closed