looks like it doesn't know that markdown supports tables.

Khaine · on Dec 27, 2013

Markdown itself does not support tables, you need to fall back to pure html tables as per the spec

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax

reirob · on Dec 27, 2013

Well at least the Pandoc markdown dialect supports three types of tables: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#tables

I have to admit that none of them satisfies me completely (sometimes I wish for mediawiki table support) - but at least they are faithful to the principle to be recognizable as tables in text editors.