Markdown tables are not supported?

[afarran]

Having ldoc comments in this markdown format:

Item 1,1	Item 1,2
Item 2,1	Item 2,2
Item 3,1	Item 3,2

does not produce the following expected HTML table output:

Item 1,1	Item 1,2
Item 2,1	Item 2,2
Item 3,1	Item 3,2

Is this a bug? Is there a workaround other than embedding HTML table tags in the ldoc comments?

Tested with Ldoc v1.4.3.
config.ld has the following settings:

• no_summary=false
• not_luadoc=true
• format='markdown'
• plain=false
• boilerplate=false

[stevedonovan]

You certainly get a generated table with Discount (built-in markdown.lua doesn't support tables) but we don't have a nice style sheet that makes that table look pretty. Should be an easy fix.

[keneanung]

I've been also using ldoc 1.4.3 with the config.ld set to format="discount" and the following table:

...
Dependencies:

| Dependency          | Version |
|---------------------|---------|
| `IOE.Core`          | 2       |

### Purpose
...

But the output I get is http://ioe.gitlab.io/topics/IOE.TargettingREADME.md.html

I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, can you help?

[cloewen8]

I also had trouble getting tables to work. I used lua-discount, but it turns out that the current version of lua-discount does not support tables. I managed to fix it by using https://github.com/squeek502/lua-discount (a real pain to install with a lot of undocumented bugs). It seems to be by the same creator of the discount (not lua-discount) rock, but I can't verify that.

[alerque]

As noted, this is entirely up to the Markdown parser you use. There are several more available now, with Pandoc in the works (see #327) which will be another option besides discount that supports tables.