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A light markup language

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Merged Cells in Tables #61

Open sirinath opened 1 year ago

sirinath commented 1 year ago

One feature many markdown table syntax lacks is merged cells in tables.

jgm commented 1 year ago

There are a number of limitations to the tables we currently support, including:

no rowspans
no colspans
contents of a cell must fit on one line

There are some useful discussions of table syntax ideas at talk.comonmark.org, but in general this is a tough issue. I'm tempted to support something like reStructuredText's list tables for a more general format.

crlf0710 commented 1 year ago

If a more powerful representation is introduced, I hope it will be able to express the appearance of "periodic table of the elements".

waldyrious commented 1 year ago

I'm tempted to support something like reStructuredText's list tables for a more general format.

For reference, list tables are specifically the subject of #27.