Add support for MultiMarkdown table syntax

[xldenis]

It would be great if this plugin could support the features of MultiMarkdown tables. Most notable being able to combine multiple columns to create ultra wide rows.

[vkocubinsky]

Thanks for feedback.

I quick analysed MultiMarkdown tables.

There are list of differnces from "Table Editor" tables:

• To indicate that a cell should span multiple columns, there simply add additional pipes (|) at the end of the cell
• It is optional whether you have |'s at the beginning and end of lines.
• To set alignment, you can use a colon to designate left or right alignment

This is example from https://github.com/fletcher/MultiMarkdown/wiki/MultiMarkdown-Syntax-Guide:

    |             |          Grouping           ||
    First Header  | Second Header | Third Header |
     ------------ | :-----------: | -----------: |
    Content       |          *Long Cell*        ||
    Content       |   **Cell**    |         Cell |
    New section   |     More      |         Data |
    And more      |            And more          |

Let's for "Table Editor" user should type the table as this:

    |               |          Grouping           ||
    | First Header  | Second Header | Third Header |
    |---------------|:-------------:|-------------:|
    | Content       |          *Long Cell*        ||
    | Content       |   **Cell**    |         Cell |
    | New section   |     More      |         Data |
    | And more      |            And more         ||

There are difference between these 2 tables:

• Second table contains '|' at the beginning(and at the end)
• Second table doesn't contains spaces between ':' and '|' at hline row
• Last line in second table have explicit span characters '||'

Could you say:

• Does second table comfortable to type MultiMarkdown tables?
• Is second table right MultiMarkdown tables?

Thanks!

[xldenis]

The second table is valid. However, when using table edit if you hit tab it reformats to get rid of any || sections. It would also be nice to be able to specify alignment in the table like MultiMarkdown does with the :-------- and ------: syntax.

[vkocubinsky]

I have added MultiMakrdown column alignment in 1.1.0. You can use :--- , ---:, --- when you edit MultiMarkdow files. For other file types you can set support multimarkdown with settings

"table_editor_syntax": "MultiMarkdown"

You can also temporary turn on multimarkdown syntax for any type files with launch command palette and select "Table Editor: Set table syntax 'MultiMarkdown' for current view"

For now colspan feature is not supported.

[xldenis]

Sorry for not replying earlier, but thanks for the alignment, I know this will be useful for me.

[2called-chaos]

Is it intended that the header alignment changes as soon as I use this?

|      foo       |
|----------------|
| somelongstring |
| shorter        |

changes to

| foo            |
| -------------: |
| somelongstring |
|        shorter |

fixable with the following but this isn't parseable by markdown anymore.

| :------------: |
|      foo       |
| -------------: |
| somelongstring |
|        shorter |

[xldenis]

I am a bit confused by your problem, what isn't working? Your first two examples render to

foo
somelongstring
shorter

and

foo
somelongstring
shorter

However, the third example doesn't render, is that the problem? I believe the third example simply isn't valid markdown as there are multiple separator lines. I can't seem to find any examples in the syntax definition that would show otherwise and my attempts at rendering it all fail as soon as a second line of dashes is introduced.

[vkocubinsky]

Thanks for feedback. I see what is the problem. The problem is that "foo" is header and you expected that "foo" will align to center in any case and other values in column will align to right, because you specify column alignment. But actual result is "foo" alignments to left. This is a bug in Table Editor.

[vkocubinsky]

Fixed header alignment in 1.2.0

[vkocubinsky]

Version 1.5.0 supports multi markdown colspan feature(alpha status). You can try to use this.