![]() You’ll be left with an ugly table that’s missing a separator line. Selecting those lines and pressing Control-Option-Command-Tab will replace all the internal tab characters with pipes and will also put pipes at both ends of every line. You’ll then have a set of lines with tab-separated values. If you have a table in a spreadsheet, select the cells, copy them, and paste into your Markdown document. The command is called Tabs to Markdown, and it’s a very simple macro. The other command in the bundle is meant to help in prettying up tabular data pasted in from a program like Excel or Numbers. Tabular data is usually much easier to enter and edit in a spreadsheet than it is in a text editor. If you want to have cells that span more than one row, which is allowed by both PHP Markdown Extra and MultiMarkdown, you’ll have to add that formatting after Normalize Table. If any rows have more cells than the separator row, the zip command in Line 79 will truncate the extra cells at the end of those rows. ![]() If any rows have fewer cells than the separator row, Lines 62-66 will add empty cells at the end of those rows. As you can see in Lines 49-51, the program assumes the number of columns in the entire table is equal to the number of cells in the separator (or formatting) line. The script is somewhat forgiving of user mistakes, but you may not like the way it forgives. I’m sure there’s some clever Python module I can use to get around this problem, but I don’t know what it is yet. Since I use len to determine string lengths in Line 74, this may lead to misaligned pipes. If, like me, you have TextMate set up to save files as UTF-8, non-ASCII characters can be two bytes long, which means that Python’s len function will return an extra byte for each non-ASCII in the string. You have non-ASCII characters in the table.I don’t think the program will choke on long lines, but it will be so wide that you won’t like its looks. Your table has one or more really long cell entries.Select the ugly table, hit Control-Option-Command-T, and your table will be nicely aligned. It’s scope is, and it’s bound to the Control-Option-Command-T Key Equivalent. In the bundle, the command is called Normalize Table. The minimum width willĦ9: # be 2, because that's the shortest length of a formatting string andħ0: # because that matches an empty column with "bumper" spaces.ħ4: widths = max(len(row), widths)ħ6: # Add whitespace to make all the columns the same width andħ9: formatted.append('|' + '|'.join() + '|')Ĩ1: # Recreate the format line with the appropriate column widths.Ĩ2: formatline = '|' + '|'.join( + '-'*(n-2) + s for (s, n) in zip(justify, widths) ]) + '|'Ĩ4: # Insert the formatline back into the table.Ĩ5: formatted.insert(formatrow, formatline)ĩ1: # Read the input, process, and print. 1: #!/usr/bin/pythonĦ: "Justify a string to length n according to type."ġ9: "Aligns the vertical bars in a text table."Ģ1: # Start by turning the text into a list of lines.ģ3: # Delete the separator line from the content.ģ6: # Determine how each column is to be justified.Ĥ9: # Assume the number of columns in the separator line is the numberĥ8: # Put exactly one space at each end as "bumpers."ĥ9: linecontent = Ħ2: # Append cells to rows that don't have enough.Ħ8: # Get the width of the content in each column. So the first command I made is a Python script that takes an ugly text table and makes it pretty. Which is easy to type, but hard to read and edit. It’s very time consuming to type it in that way, though, so my tables tend to look more like this: |Left align|Right align|Center align| It’s nice to have the text version of the table spaced as I have it above with the pipes stacked on top of one another and the text aligned the way the separator line says. A colon at the left end only (or no colon at all) means left aligned a colon at the right end only means right aligned a colon at each end means centered. The alignment of each column is determined by the placement of the colons in the separator line. The pipe (|) characters separate the columns. Will, after processing, turn into an HTML table that will render like this: Left align The full explanation can be found at either the PHP Markdown Extra or MultiMarkdown sites, but the nutshell version is this: | Left align | Right align | Center align | The bundle is called Text Tables, and you can download a zipped version of it at the link.įirst, let’s talk about what Markdown tables look like. Tables-which aren’t part of strict Markdown, but are included in both PHP Markdown Extra and MultiMarkdown, both of which I use-are a particular pain to format, so I created a small TextMate bundle to help me out. This week I spent a lot of time typing up notes in Markdown format. Next post Previous post Tables for Markdown and TextMate
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