Problem with markdown multiline tables and multiple lines in first column.

Problem with markdown multiline tables and multiple lines in first column.

[Robert Zenz]

I have a little problem with markdown multiline tables with which I want to have
multiple lines in the first column. For some reason the table is not recognized
when there are more than two lines in the first column, for example the
following does not work for me:

    ----------------
    ColumnA  ColumnB
    -------- -------
    First    Line1\
             Line2\
             Line3

    Second1\
    Second2\
    Second3  Value
    ----------------

It just produces text and only the header is recognized as table. If I remove
for example the second line in the second row, the table appears as it should.
I'm using Pandoc 2.0.5, converting from Markdown to HTML.

Does somebody have an idea what I'm doing wrong here?

Re: Problem with markdown multiline tables and multiple lines in first column.

[John MACFARLANE]

Try putting "Value" in the same line with "Second1"
(i.e. top-align the cell).

In multiline tables, you can't have block-level content,
and I think what's going on here is that the opening
blank lines get parsed as an empty block.

+++ Robert Zenz [Dec 14 17 10:56 ]:
>I have a little problem with markdown multiline tables with which I want to have
>multiple lines in the first column. For some reason the table is not recognized
>when there are more than two lines in the first column, for example the
>following does not work for me:
>
>    ----------------
>    ColumnA  ColumnB
>    -------- -------
>    First    Line1\
>             Line2\
>             Line3
>
>    Second1\
>    Second2\
>    Second3  Value
>    ----------------
>
>It just produces text and only the header is recognized as table. If I remove
>for example the second line in the second row, the table appears as it should.
>I'm using Pandoc 2.0.5, converting from Markdown to HTML.
>
>Does somebody have an idea what I'm doing wrong here?
>
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Re: Problem with markdown multiline tables and multiple lines in first column.

[Robert Zenz]

Thank you very much, that did the trick.

I somehow assumed that `\` would be line terminating (also I could swear that I
tried that, but must have screwed that try up).

For the log, the working example looks like this:

    ----------------
    ColumnA  ColumnB
    -------- -------
    First    Line1\
             Line2\
             Line3

    Second1\ Value
    Second2\
    Second3
    ----------------


On 14.12.2017 21:24, John MACFARLANE wrote:
> Try putting "Value" in the same line with "Second1"
> (i.e. top-align the cell).
> 
> In multiline tables, you can't have block-level content,
> and I think what's going on here is that the opening
> blank lines get parsed as an empty block.
> 
> +++ Robert Zenz [Dec 14 17 10:56 ]:
>> I have a little problem with markdown multiline tables with which I want to have
>> multiple lines in the first column. For some reason the table is not recognized
>> when there are more than two lines in the first column, for example the
>> following does not work for me:
>>
>>    ----------------
>>    ColumnA  ColumnB
>>    -------- -------
>>    First    Line1\
>>             Line2\
>>             Line3
>>
>>    Second1\
>>    Second2\
>>    Second3  Value
>>    ----------------
>>
>> It just produces text and only the header is recognized as table. If I remove
>> for example the second line in the second row, the table appears as it should.
>> I'm using Pandoc 2.0.5, converting from Markdown to HTML.
>>
>> Does somebody have an idea what I'm doing wrong here?
>>
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>