Well at least the Pandoc markdown dialect supports three types of tables: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#tables http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/R

Well at least the Pandoc markdown dialect supports three types of tables: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#tables http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#tables I have to admit that none of them satisfies me completely (sometimes I wish for mediawiki table support) - but at least they are faithful to the principle to be recognizable as tables in text editors.