On Fri, 2 May 2025 at 17:11, Niall Pemberton <niall.pember...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, 2 May 2025 at 09:49, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Markdown is easy to use for most things, except wide tables, as rows
> > cannot be broken across lines.
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> It can be done - I've just simplified the table in projects.md and split it
> over two lines. In this case I used the Liquid {%- link %} tag to remove
> preceding whitespace (the "-" after the "%" does that).The table that caused me a problem is here: https://github.com/apache/attic/blob/983591a2e05073cab906c1cf94e627d5c1498fde/data.md?plain=1#L73 Can that be simplified? > However, without the need for that link tag, then with Liquid 4.x (which > Jekyll is locked to) its a hack. Would be easier in Liquid 5.x using the {% > echo %} tag, but Jekyll is currently incompatible with 5.x. > > I might add a custom "does nothing" tag, to make this easier. > > So I don't think we need to add another format for content. > > Niall > > > > > > > Asciidoc allows table rows to be split across lines, for example: > > > > > > https://github.com/apache/commons-parent/blob/master/COMPONENTS.adoc?plain=1 > > > > Compare that with the previous MD version: > > > > > > https://github.com/apache/commons-parent/blob/997a7bd3e045ad1651ec4ac9788a66dc3f1b751e/COMPONENTS.md?plain=1 > > > > AFAICT it should be easy enough to enable asciidoc. > > > > Sebb > >
