On Fri, 2 May 2025 at 18:52, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2 May 2025 at 17:11, Niall Pemberton <niall.pember...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 2 May 2025 at 09:49, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Markdown is easy to use for most things, except wide tables, as rows
> > > cannot be broken across lines.
> > >
> >
> > 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?
>
I've split some of the lines in that table:
https://github.com/apache/attic/commit/af451d42e553184c5261c19e787b5d0c77bdcfcf
Niall
>
> > 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
> > >
>
