Markdown
I had an itch with Markdown and wrote up a proposal that didn't go anywhere.
As I was documenting stuff for work, I had used property tables in Confluence and made reports and other functionality around these property values of pages, I thought it would be nifty and nice to have property tables in Markdown as well.
Normal tables are like table-header and a divider and then table rows, while a property table would be a name column and then a value column.
Example of a regular table.
| Name | Name | Name |
| ---- | ---- | ---- |
| Foo | Bar | Meh |
Example of a property table.
| Name | Foo |
| Length | 157 |
| Size | EU/49 |
| Color | Orange |
There would need to be some different markdown syntax to support it and would need to be put into the specification to be available everywhere, otherwise it is quite pointless of specifying it.
I toyed with the idea long enough to come up with some syntax for it .. but somebody else need to drive it.