Re: Using orgtbl-mode with markdown: hfmt1

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

Hello,

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> writes:

> As is, orgtbl-mode is a great addition to markdown-mode.
>
> There is one snag:
>
> The markdown table syntax isn’t fully standardized.
> A number of implementations react unfavorable to the + characters that
> orgtbl-mode uses as a column/row separator in the line separating the
> header from the body of the table; they prefer the | character here as
> well.
>
> So I apply this little patch in org-table-align each time I install a new version of org-mode:
>
> org-table.el
> 874c158
> <              (hfmt1 "-%s-+"))
> ---
>>              (hfmt1 "-%s-|"))           ; HACK: + ➔ |
>
> Works perfectly.  But it would be nice not to have to apply this patch each time I update.
>
> Would it be possible to make hfmt1 configurable?
> (Preferably, using a buffer-local variable so I don’t have to break
> tables in org-mode proper?)

The point of orgtbl-mode is to edit Org tables, not Markdown tables,
which have a different syntax.

The usual workflow is to edit the Org mode tables and "send" it to
another location within the same buffer, applying some pre-defined
transformation. See (info "(org) Radio tables") for more information.

Another option is to add an advice on `org-table-align'. See
`add-advice'.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou