DEVIATIONS

The dialect differs from David Wheeler's proposals in a few ways. Most of these deviations were discussed with David Wheeler and included with his approval.

• The header's "marker" row can use "+====+" as well as "+----+":

    | Header 1 | Header 2 |
    +==========+==========+
    | Body 1   | Body 2   |
      

• The table does not require a header:

    | Body 1 | Body 2 |
    | Body 3 | Body 4 |
      

• You can include a header marker at the beginning and/or end of the table. This matches how MySQL outputs tables from its CLI tool.

    +------+-------------+------------------------------+--------+
    | id   | name        | description                  | price  |
    +------+-------------+------------------------------+--------+
    |    1 | gizmo       | Takes care of the doohickies |   1.99 |
    |    2 | doodad      | Collects *gizmos*            |  23.80 |
    |   10 | dojigger    | Foo                          | 102.98 |
    | 1024 | thingamabob | Self-explanatory, no?        |   0.99 |
    +------+-------------+------------------------------+--------+
      

• Currently it just does tables, not definition lists. This will be fixed in a future release.
• Table continuation lines are expected to have the same number of cells as the line being continued. In other words, this doesn't work:

   | cell1 | cell2     |
           : continues
      

  Instead, you must write this:

   | cell1 | cell2     |
   :       : continues :
      

  This is not an approved deviation, and may be corrected in a future release if I can figure out how to do so (patches welcome).