apologies if this has been discussed and dismissed, but maybe it helps.

I have seen at least one markdown table format that I liked and that pretty 
much covers almost everything that I need.  I did not invent this!  I found 
it am showing the markdown text here:


^ h1-left  ^  h1-center  ^  h1-right ^    h1-left-3col   ^^^  h1-center-3col 
 ^^^  h1-right-3col     ^^^
| l1       |      c1     |        r3 |  c4  |  c5  |  c6  |  c7  |  c8  | 
 c9  |  c10  |  c11  |  c12  |
| l1       |      c1     |        r3 |        m4-6       |||        m7-9   
   |||      m10-12        |||
| l1       |      c1     |        r3 | m4-6              |||             m7-
9 |||      m10-12        |||



The markdown code seems fairly easy to understand.  When a cell is followed 
by consecutive cell dividers, the intent is to merge this cell to its 
left. If an empty cell is desired instead, a space would have to be 
inserted.  Left/Center/Right flush is determined by the spaces starting 
and ending the cell.  The result can be viewed here:

http://cookbook.tips/!julia/doku.php?id=table


For convenience, here is a png image thereof:

[image: mdtable.png]

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