Formatting markdown tables in bbedit

[Rainer Krug]

Hi

How can I align the | in a markdown table in bbedit? 

Any scripts / filters which help me working with tables in bbedit? 

All the ones I found are REALLY old.

Thanks,

Rainer

[jj]

Hi Rainer,

Did you check https://github.com/darkriszty/MarkdownTablePrettify-VSCodeExt ?

Install with:

    % brew install node
    % npm install -g markdown-table-prettify
   
Create a BBEdit Text Filter ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Text Filters/markdown_table_prettify.sh:

    #!/usr/bin/env node
    const { CliPrettify } = require('markdown-table-prettify');
    process.stdin.setEncoding('utf8');
   
    process.stdin.on('data', function(text) {
      console.log(CliPrettify.prettify(text));
    })

HTH,

Jean Jourdain

[Rainer Krug]

Thanks brilliant - that worked, but I had to install without the `-g` option.

[Watts Martin]

While this is a bit late, I use Brett Terpstra's Markdown Service Tools for doing this -- and occasionally other Markdown-ish things -- in BBEdit, as well as other apps. If you use Markdown a lot, it's worth checking out.

https://brettterpstra.com/projects/markdown-service-tools/

-- Watts

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[Rainer Krug]

This is a nice collection - thanks roper ;pointing it out. Useful.

Thanks

Rainer

[Tim Gray]

I hesitate to share these scripts because I can't really vouch for them being particularly cleaned up, but here they are anyway:

https://gist.github.com/tgray/c1392d6e68c24708bba2926c1aacd76f 

I'm pretty sure I started working from some scripts at Dr. Drang's site:

http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2012/11/markdown-table-scripts-for-bbedit/

Anyway, there are 4 scripts:

- tabs2table.pl - takes tab delimited data and converts it to a markdown table

- table2tabs.pl - does the reverse

- spaces2tabs-table.pl - Takes columns separated by 2 or more spaces and/or tabs and converts to a single tab - this was some cleanup script I must have written and could easily be just a find and replace.

- Reformat table.py - Cleans up a markdown table (like from tabs2table.pl) and justifies the columns.  I'm pretty sure I modified this slightly from the one from leancrew to change the default column alignment.

I do have a similar script for doing the same with Latex tables, but it's on my work computer...  I could fetch them if there is interest.

Tim

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