Thanks, Vincente.

I'm specifically aiming at the Markdown syntax supported by the
Editorial app, which does include markup for tables. Unfortunately, it
looks like Editorial's Markdown doesn't use the initial '|', so simply
exporting the org markup won't work without some editing.
Thanks!
-pd

On Sat, Jun 3, 2017, at 12:31 PM, Vicente Vera wrote:
> There are several Markdown "forks" which have different sets of
> features.>
> AFAIK the markdown exporter in Org is based upon John Gruber's
> Markdown, which does not include a syntax for tables. Thus all tables> in Org documents get exported as HTML.
>
> A workaround is to wrap your Org tables as:
>
> #+BEGIN_EXPORT md
> | Name   | Years |
> | Edward |    44 |
> | Sylvia |    45 |
> #+END_EXPORT
>
> On export to Markdown the tables will be kept unmodified as Org
> syntax.>
> It is important that you know which flavor of Markdown you're
> targeting, because not all versions accept tables in Org syntax.
> Pandoc's Markdown have a similar syntax for "pipe tables". However,
> you may type all tables in any syntax accepted by your Markdown
> version and keep them wrapped in #+BEGIN_EXPORT tags.
>
> 2017-06-03 13:41 GMT+00:00 Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>:
> >
> > I'd like to be able to move easily between org-mode and the IOS app
> > Editorial, which is mainly based around markdown syntax. I can> > easily export markdown from org-mode, but the tables seems to come
> > through as straight HTML, as opposed to markdown's table> > syntax. This makes it more difficult to edit the resulting files.
> >
> > Is there a way to get org to export to markdown using md's table
> > syntax?> >
> > (FWIW, I tried using pandoc, but this just removed the table syntax
> > altogether, so an entire table would just run together into a> > paragraph of gibberish.)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -pd
> >
> >


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