Tables lost on MMD --> HTML

Scrivener Markdown & LaTeX
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I read over the thread on Tables and MMD3->Latex ([url]https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/mmd-vs-latex-issue-passing-from-scrivener/15272/2]), and made sure that my own compile setting leaves all “Transformations” (like convert paragraph spacing and indents) unchecked, and yet I am still losing tables on very simple implementations. For example, when I compile this

The world’s disparate traditions have developed very distinct kinds of literature, even very different ideas as to what should be called “literature” at all. This anthology uses a variety of means to showcase what is most distinctive and also what is commonly shared among the world’s literatures. Throughout this anthology we employ three kinds of grouping…

| Crosscurrents | Highlights overarching issues or developments many cultures have faced,
e.g. creation myths (or World War II) ||
| Perspectives | Provides cultural context for a cluster of major works,
e.g. death and immortality in the ancient Near East
(or childhood experiences of transgression) |

Resonances Links works across big reaches of time and/or space,
e.g. Odyssey and responses by Kafka, Walcott, Seferis
(or Song of Everlasting Sorrow by Wang Anyi (Shanghai, 1995),
“Song of Everlasting Sorrow” by Bai Juyi (Chang’an, 800s))
Content Cell
And more And more

[Grouping terms by Damrosch et. al., 2004]

MMD–>HTML builds a successful table. But I want to remove the bottom two rows. When I remove

Content | Cell | Cell |

I get a successful table, but when I remove the final row,

And more | And more ||

The table no longer compiles. What’s going on here? Is there another Scrivener setting that is adding an unwanted carriage return?

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Could you post an after-compile version of this table as well? It’s hard to say unless we can see what Scrivener is actually doing.

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Oops, moved on from that exact example, but here’s an extremely similar instance when I went back:

This MMD in a Scrivener pane:

| Crosscurrents | Highlight overarching issues or developments many cultures have faced, e.g. creation myths (or World War II) |

Perspectives Provides cultural context for a cluster of major works, e.g. death and immortality in the ancient Near East (or childhood experiences of transgression)
Resonances Links works across big reaches of time and/or space, e.g. Odyssey and responses by Kafka, Walcott, Seferis (or Song of Everlasting Sorrow by Wang Anyi (Shanghai, 1995), “Song of Everlasting Sorrow” by Bai Juyi (Chang’an, 800s))
Content Cell
New section More
And more And more

[Prototype table]

produces this HTML:

Prototype table
Crosscurrents Highlight overarching issues or developments many cultures have faced, e.g. creation myths (or World War II)
Perspectives Provides cultural context for a cluster of major works, e.g. death and immortality in the ancient Near East (or childhood experiences of transgression)
Resonances Links works across big reaches of time and/or space, e.g. Odyssey and responses by Kafka, Walcott, Seferis (or Song of Everlasting Sorrow by Wang Anyi (Shanghai, 1995), “Song of Everlasting Sorrow” by Bai Juyi (Chang’an, 800s))
Content Cell Cell
New section More Data
And more And more

That’s fine, or close enough for now. But when I remove a line:

| Crosscurrents | Highlight overarching issues or developments many cultures have faced, e.g. creation myths (or World War II) |
| Perspectives | Provides cultural context for a cluster of major works, e.g. death and immortality in the ancient Near East (or childhood experiences of transgression) |
| Resonances | Links works across big reaches of time and/or space, e.g. Odyssey and responses by Kafka, Walcott, Seferis (or Song of Everlasting Sorrow by Wang Anyi (Shanghai, 1995), “Song of Everlasting Sorrow” by Bai Juyi (Chang’an, 800s)) |
Content | Cell | Cell |
New section | More | Data |
And more | And more ||
[Prototype table]

I get no table:

| Crosscurrents | Highlight overarching issues or developments many cultures have faced, e.g. creation myths (or World War II) | | Perspectives | Provides cultural context for a cluster of major works, e.g. death and immortality in the ancient Near East (or childhood experiences of transgression) | | Resonances | Links works across big reaches of time and/or space, e.g. Odyssey and responses by Kafka, Walcott, Seferis (or Song of Everlasting Sorrow by Wang Anyi (Shanghai, 1995), “Song of Everlasting Sorrow” by Bai Juyi (Chang’an, 800s)) | Content | Cell | Cell | New section | More | Data | And more | And more || Prototype table

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What I mean is: the actual MMD that Scrivener produces. So what you have in the editor (and use the code block in the forum to paste, so we can see all spaces); then what you have if you compile to plain mmd. Looking at the end HTML/LaTeX result is introducing way too many factors into the equation I fear. We could, for all we know, be looking at an MMD parsing bug. Oh, also check Format/Options/Show Invisible and make nothing weird is in the table like a line feed.

P.S. In the second example it looks like you removed the line which defines cell alignment? That is a necessary row.

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Ah, seems you’ve already found the problem. Here’s the MMD:

| Crosscurrents | Highlight overarching issues or developments many cultures have faced, e.g. creation myths (or World War II) |
| Perspectives | Provides cultural context for a cluster of major works, e.g. death and immortality in the ancient Near East (or childhood experiences of transgression) |
| Resonances | Links works across big reaches of time and/or space, e.g. Odyssey and responses by Kafka, Walcott, Seferis (or Song of Everlasting Sorrow by Wang Anyi (Shanghai, 1995), “Song of Everlasting Sorrow” by Bai Juyi (Chang’an, 800s)) |
Content | Cell | Cell |
New section | More | Data |
And more | And more ||
[Prototype table]

It seems it doesn’t work because I removed “the line which defines cell alignment,” as you say. Still learning on the go! Thanks!