Easy MMD tables

Scrivener Markdown & LaTeX
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If there’s one thing that annoys me about MMD it’s the typing of tables. Maybe it’s that my touch-typing doesn’t readily encompass the | symbol, I don’t know, but I find them a touch clunky to set up.

Brett Terpstra clearly feels the same way, as he has added a new service to his Markdown Service Tools which will create a standard MMD table from a simple comma separated one. You can get the specification and download the service here, along with all other other pieces: brettterpstra.com/2016/07/27/csv … wn-tables/

Using the service turns:

==My easy table
h1,h2,h3,h4
<,<,>,=
one,two,three,four
five,>,six,seven

Into

|  h1   |  h2   |  h3   |  h4   |
| :---- | :---- | ----: | :---: |
| one   | two   | three | four  |
| five         ||   six | seven |
[My easy table]

I can then add a label, if I want, but otherwise it is ready to go.

What’s not to like?

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Cool, thanks for the link. Also super cool to read Brett is back on working on BitWriter (nvAlt being one of my most used apps).

For those who want a visual interface to making MD tables, this is also very helpful:

tablesgenerator.com/markdown_tables

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Very nice tool! Thanks for posting it.

By the way, Scrivener may have an interesting trick or two up its sleeve for this in the future. :wink:

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oooooooh, sounds delicious!!!

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+1 to that oooooh