**Rud** @rmerriam@qoto.org · Nov 23, 2022, 16:55

**Rud** @rmerriam@qoto.org · Nov 23, 2022, 16:55

Markdown Tables
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It looks like the tables need some work. The width is not handled properly:

**R. A. Dehi** @radehi@qoto.org · 2022-11-23T17:04:05Z

R. A. Dehi @radehi@qoto.org

@rmerriam @freemo Interesting! Markdown doesn't have tables. Even CommonMark doesn't have tables. GLFM and GFM do.

But apparently #Qoto's pseudo-Markdown does too! The widths look fine to me, they just need some cell padding. And the alignment is wrong.

**Rud** @rmerriam@qoto.org · Nov 23, 2022, 17:12

**Rud** @rmerriam@qoto.org · Nov 23, 2022, 17:12

Rud @rmerriam@qoto.org

Most of the Markdown I've used has tables. I used the Bitbuket markdown page to create a test post.

The table does need padding. The line with the | and - sets the width of the column. That's shown in the screen capture.

**Rud** @rmerriam@qoto.org · Nov 23, 2022, 17:14

**Rud** @rmerriam@qoto.org · Nov 23, 2022, 17:14

Rud @rmerriam@qoto.org

HA! The pipe characters converted my paragraph into a table.

**R. A. Dehi** @radehi@qoto.org · Nov 23, 2022, 17:23

**R. A. Dehi** @radehi@qoto.org · Nov 23, 2022, 17:23

R. A. Dehi @radehi@qoto.org

twitter

@rmerriam if this were twitter surely one of us would be calling the other a Nazi by now

**R. A. Dehi** @radehi@qoto.org · Nov 23, 2022, 17:14

**R. A. Dehi** @radehi@qoto.org · Nov 23, 2022, 17:14

R. A. Dehi @radehi@qoto.org

@rmerriam @freemo Interesting. Presumably BitBucket is aping GFM. I didn't know GFM had syntax for adding padding.

**Pat** @Pat@qoto.org · Nov 23, 2022, 17:30

**Pat** @Pat@qoto.org · Nov 23, 2022, 17:30

Pat @Pat@qoto.org

Here are the numbers in your toot made to look like a phone number:

1-600-112-3111