![]() This work by Koen Vervloesem is licensed under CC BY-SA 4. It's these small quibbles with Markdown all the time that strenghten my preference for reStructuredText as a markup language.Ĭopyright © 2023 Koen Vervloesem / Bits & komma's BV / BTW BE 0808 117 985 So now I have converted the README file from Markdown to reStructuredText. Of course I can just create an HTML table without a header in the Markdown file, as shown in one of the StackOverflow answers, but that defeats the purpose of using a more human-centered markup language. Unfortunately in GitHub the result looks a bit odd, with that compressed empty header row: This adds HTML comment blocks in the header cells, which essentially adds an empty header row to the table. That StackOverflow post linked above shows a hack that seems to work in many Markdown parsers, including in GitHub: ![]() But apparently GitHub-flavoured Markdown and many other Markdown flavours don't support tables without headers. I could have written the README as a reStructuredText file, but I already created a README.md out of habit, so I tried to create the same table without header in Markdown. Now I wanted to do the same in Markdown in the corresponding GitHub repository with code examples. This looks fine as a simple table without a header. This is rendered by Nikola, the static site generator I'm using, as: | **Publisher** | Elektor International Media (EIM) | | **Title** | Control Your Home with Raspberry Pi | In reStructuredText, which I'm using for this website, the code for the table looks like this: When I wrote the page about my book Control Your Home with Raspberry Pi on this website, I wanted to list some specifications (title, publication date, number of pages. ![]() Then tables from markdown pages can be sorted like : Share. install Github Sort Content from Greasyfork. Its very easy to install, for instance from Chrome : install Tampermonkey. In general I prefer reStructuredText for longer and more complex documents, and Markdown for shorter and simpler texts. Table sort is not supported in Github flavored markdown but one alternative is to use user script such as Github Sort Content. I use both markup formats for my projects on GitHub, depending on the complexity of the documentation. I write the posts on this blog in reStructuredText. I wrote my book in reStructuredText and converted it to a Word file with Sphinx to send to the publisher. I write most of my articles for print magazines in Markdown and convert them to office documents with a custom XSLT stylesheet and/or pandoc, depending on the magazine's requirements. Use your favourite Markdown shortcuts to format text, like typing this for bold. Have you ever written a table without a header in Markdown? It turns out that most Markdown parsers don't support tables without headers.Īs a technology writer, I'm constantly switching between reStructuredText and Markdown as plaintext markup syntax (I write in Vim). Add links, columns, and rows to your hearts content When your table is finished, click 'Generate' to generate a Markdown table that you can edit using our user-friendly Markdown table editor.
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