[ofiwg] creating a table with markdown

Christoph Lameter christoph at lameter.com
Wed Jan 7 09:29:28 PST 2015


​Manpages do create things that look like table using .TP, .RS and friends.​

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <jsquyres at cisco.com
> wrote:

> I believe that only Github-flavored markdown allows you to make tables:
>
>     https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown/
>
> If pandoc is not converting the github markdown tables to nroff properly,
> we might need to expand config/md2nroff.pl.
>
>
> On Jan 7, 2015, at 12:14 PM, Hefty, Sean <sean.hefty at intel.com> wrote:
>
> > The conversion is from markdown directly to html and man pages.
> Man2html isn't used anymore.  My selected syntax for creating the table was
> spectacularly unsuccessful.  I can find details on how to construct tables
> using markdown, but I haven't found anything that indicates that can be
> used to produce man pages as well.
> >
> >
> >> Man2html does not covert properly? I always do manpage markup and then
> >> others convert with tools from that.
> >>
> >> On Jan 7, 2015 11:08 AM, "Hefty, Sean" <sean.hefty at intel.com
> >> <mailto:sean.hefty at intel.com> > wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>      Does anyone know how to create a table using markdown such that it
> >> displays decently in both html and man page formats?
> >>
> >>      - Sean
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