[kramdown-users] Table syntax and implementation

[Shawn Van Ittersum]

So:

|-     separator line
|-|    header separator line
|--||  separator line
|-:|-| header separator line

Am I the only one that finds this confusing?

Can we please just have one kind of separator line?

Shawn

On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:12:41 +0100, Thomas Leitner wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:58:13 +0700, Shawn Van Ittersum wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>> 
>> I don't understand the differenc between your example and mine.
>> Please explain what makes kramdown interpret the separator as a
>> header separator.
> 
> The syntax of a header separator line requires that there is at least
> one dash between two pipes whereas the normal separator line just
> requires a pipe/plus and a dash at the beginning of the line and then
> any combination of pipes, dashes and pluses. Therefore header separator
> lines and normal separator lines share a common subset but none is a
> real subset of the other.
> 
> Examples:
> 
> The following is a header line as well as a separator line:
> 
>     |----|----|
> 
> Only a header line (because of the colons):
> 
>     |:--:|:---|
> 
> Only a separator line (because of consecutive pluses/pipes):
> 
>     |----+|+----|
> 
> -- Thomas
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