Rick, I have created a readme.md in MdM, and copied it to Github. The problem is that what shows as a table in MdM, shows as compressed text on Github. The fix was relatively easy, add a space at the end of every line.

Is there any setting in MdM to make it behave like Github, or do I just have to remember to add the spaces?

Example? What kind of table (Pipe or Grid)?

There was a recent fix that removed trailing spaces from Grid Tables - I wonder if that broke it?

+++ Rick ---

FWIW, GitHub doesn't support Grid tables, only Pipe tables. So if you're using Grid Tables they won't work...

Just checked formatting and embedding of pipe tables and that works just fine...

+++ Rick ---

This is a small part of the table, just like it was before I added some extra ending spaces. If you copy it into a readme.md on Github, you will see that it doesn't show any table, only the plain text.

Please format message with code formatting. Markdown is a code format.

+++ Rick ---

OK, here you are:

You type|Result after pressing `F8`
--------|---------------------|---
ed (in Command Window)|Group of files defined in line 1 of *pandora.txt* are opened
\<blank\> (in Command Window)|Same as above
ed x (x=numeric,>0)|Group of matching files in *pandora.txt* are opened
x (x=numeric)|Same as above

That doesn't even look like markdown.

This is what it should look like:

You can reformat the table with MM, but you need to add the leading and trailing | at least to the first line.

The problem is that what you have is not proper Pipe Table markdown. You need the leading pipes - that's why GH isn't rendering it I think. It probably shouldn't render in MM either but the parser we use apparently does.

You can use the table editor to create the base table, or to re-edit existing tables (right click, Edit Table or Format Table or paste the markdown into the table editor).

+++ Rick ---

I don't want to argue, the problem is that the literature you find on Internet clearly can't be "trusted".

Since I don't work much with MD, I have in front of me three printed different MD "cheat sheets". Two of them don't show the leading and trailing |, and the third one doesn't mention tables at all.

Just to "excuse myself", here are links to two of these guides guides :
https://www.rstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/rmarkdown-cheatsheet.pdf https://enterprise.github.com/downloads/en/markdown-cheatsheet.pdf

Anyway, I found the "official" Github MD documents at https://github.github.com/gfm/, I will study it. Or do you have the link to a better document?

The closest thing to official markdown standard is Daring Fireball's original spec here:

Markdown

The one most relevant docs in your case though is the GitHub Markdown docs:

GitHub Writing Docs (Tables)

Pipe tables are named that way because of the pipe separators which includes the leading pipes. But I suppose that it's legal to skip those since the renderer in MM (MarkDig which uses Github Flavored CommonMark) works with it.

If you don't know how something works take advantage of the tools in Markdown Monster. The Table Editor lets you create and edit tables, as well as reformat (although for reformat it requires the full pipe syntax at least on the line you're reformatting from).

+++ Rick ---

Just to clarify, here's what you can do to get your table to format properly:

Once you have a properly formatted table you can edit the table or format it:

Format

Edit

+++ Rick ---

Nice, I'll keep that in mind.