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bert

15 Dec, 2011 03:13 PM

A table I created was displayed correctly with marked a month ago. But now it doesn't any longer. Any ideas?

-- Bert Fitié

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Brett on 15 Dec, 2011 03:26 PM

   

   It may have to do with an upgrade to the MultiMarkdown processor. Be sure that your syntax looks like:

   header 1 | header 2 | header 3 |  
   | :----- | :------- | :------- |  
   data 1   | data 2   | data3    |
   

   Note that you need the leading pipe (|) on at least the alignment row. If that doesn't help, post the syntax you're using for the table and I'll see what's up.

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2. 2 Posted by Bert Fitié on 15 Dec, 2011 03:48 PM

   

   I found the cause of the problem. Since SmartyPants transformed some parts of my texts in a way I didn't want, I turned it off in Preferences. I did turn off SmartyPants, but it seems I also turned off the table feature.

   Could you provide for separate preferences, i.e.to turning off SmartyPants but keeping the full MMD.

   -- Bert Fitié

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Brett on 15 Dec, 2011 03:52 PM

   

   I think I can, but it will depend on the options the MultiMarkdown executable provides. I'll look into it. Can you post a sample table that causes the issue?

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4. 4 Posted by Bert Fitié on 15 Dec, 2011 04:08 PM

   

   Following simple table, for example, runs fine with the Markdown Compatibity Mode unchecked:

   Collections | #
   ----------- | -:
   All Items | 52
   Secundary Publications | 29
   Ebooks | 4
   Publications | 12
   Publications (2) | 7

   The problem is that with the Markdown Compatibity Mode unchecked I have to "buy in" into SmartyPants, e.g. a isbn like 978-0-07-150273-3 will be displayed as 978–0–07–150273–3 thanks to SmartyPants. This I do not want. So I need the possibility to turn off SmartyPants but to keep all the goodies of MMD

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5. Support Staff 5 Posted by Brett on 15 Dec, 2011 04:26 PM

   

   Is the hyphen to mdash conversion the only issue? I'm happy to submit a ticket on MultiMarkdown to ask that it not do that when there are more than one consecutive digit/hyphen pairs, as that doesn't make sense. If you need to disable SmartyPants all together, I did find that I can make that an option. In the meantime, you do have two choices.

   1. You can escape the hyphens with a backslash to avoid them being processed:

       978\-0\-07\-150273\-3
      

      Kind of a pain in the butt, though.

   2. If you have MultiMarkdown installed on its own, you can create a shell script (mmd.sh) with the following contents:

       #!/bin/bash
      
       cat|/usr/local/bin/multimarkdown --nosmart
      

      Run chmod a+x /path/to/mmd.sh and set that as the custom processor for Marked

      • If you don't have MultiMarkdown installed, you can do the same with the internal version of multimarkdown:

          #!/bin/bash
        
          cat|/Applications/Marked.app/Contents/Resources/multimarkdown --nosmart
        

   All kind of a pain, so I'll add the option to disable SmartyPants before the next release.

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6. 6 Posted by Bert Fitié on 15 Dec, 2011 07:24 PM

   

   Thanks for the support; I wait for the new release with the option of separate disabling of SmartyPants.

   I'm happy anyway that I know the reason now that my tables were gone: my inadvertent checking of the Markdown Compatibity Mode to get rid of SmartyPants.

   Good luck with further development of Marked.app

   -- Bert Fitié

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7. Brett closed this discussion on 22 Dec, 2011 12:08 AM.