[ofiwg] creating a table with markdown

Jason Gunthorpe jgunthorpe at obsidianresearch.com
Wed Jan 7 10:51:13 PST 2015


On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 05:25:11PM +0000, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) 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.

I've been using RST for awhile to write man pages - the rst2man
converter in docutils does a reasonable job and RST is a bit richer
and more well defined that markdown, while being similarly simplistic.

Jason



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