trentm / trentm/python-markdown2
Can't add a soft line break within a wiki-table
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Description
I input:
|| test1 || test 2 ||
|| cell 1 || cell 2
cell 2 continued ||
where there are no spaces after "cell 2". The usual markdown convention is that a line break without two trailing spaces should create a new line.
The expected output would be:
| test 1 | test 2 |
|---|---|
| cell 1 | cell 2 cell 2 continued |
but it actually outputs
<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr><td>test 1</td><td>test 2</td></tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n\n<p>|| cell1 || cell2\ncell2 continued ||</p>\n
I'm not sure if this is intentional or not, but it seems backwards/inconsistent from the normal markdown conventions (it's surprising) and is not documented.
If we can't get this fixed, would it be possible to add explicit line continuations?
Maybe something like
|| test1 || test 2 ||
|| cell 1 || cell 2 \
cell 2 continued ||
At the very least could we get this documented at https://github.com/trentm/python-markdown2/wiki/wiki-tables
Related issue: https://github.com/trentm/python-markdown2/issues/66
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Reproduce the wiki-table example from the issue and compare its output with the stated Markdown line-break convention. Review related issue #66 and the wiki-tables page; done means the behavior is resolved with tests or the limitation and any continuation syntax are explicitly documented.
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- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend, documentation
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
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