[Feature Request] Pandoc grid tables

[gitdramaqueen]

Hi, thanks for this and for preview enhanced.

This is my feature request to support Pandoc's grid tables. Here's a sample:

+---------------+---------------+--------------------+
| Fruit         | Price         | Advantages         |
+===============+===============+====================+
| Bananas       | $1.34         | - built-in wrapper |
|               |               | - bright color     |
+---------------+---------------+--------------------+
| Oranges       | $2.10         | - cures scurvy     |
|               |               | - tasty            |
+---------------+---------------+--------------------+

There's an old feature request for this in the preview-enhanced repo. And one of the developers has suggested a roadmap to add the functionality. I have just started at uni, so I don't have the skills to submit a PR, sorry.

But I did find a markdown-it plug-in that adds the support.

Maybe someone more knowledgeable than me can add it in? I'd very much appreciate it.

[chagmed]

@gitdramaqueen Did you try to render a Pandoc grid table with MPE and find that it didn't work?

• Make sure you have Pandoc installed and in your system PATH.

• You can test your installation from the command line by pasting the example table below into a file, e.g., grid_test.md.

• Command: pandoc -f markdown -o grid_test.pdf grid_test.md

• Open the generated PDF, which should contain a nicely-formatted table, and a caption above it.

• If the above works, in VSCode's MPE extension settings, enter Pandoc Path (in my case, pandoc).

• Check (enable) the option Use Pandoc Parser

• Copy the test file to your VSCode project, open it, preview using MPE. It should look essentially like the PDF you generated via the command line.

: Pandoc-only `grid_tables` extension works with *MPE*

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