Markdown tables are not rendered correctly by Literate

[tpoisot]

I am trying to use PrettyTables with Literate, and when the table is return using the Markdown backend, Literate renders it as a code block.

In fredrikekre/Literate.jl#262 the Literate maitainers suggest that this might be because PrettyTables does not rely on show. Is there an easy fix / workaround?

[ronisbr]

Hi @tpoisot !

Actually PrettyTables just print to the selected IO. Would it work if you call str = pretty_table(String, ...), which will render the table as a string, and then show(stdout, MIME("text/markdown"), str) ?

[tpoisot]

Good question - I'll fix a few other bugs with my documentation, and then try this and report back.

[fredrikekre]

No That won't work because a String isn't showable as text/markdown. I think something like the PrettyTable struct from fredrikekre/Literate.jl#262 (comment) would be useful. That would let the frontend decide what formatting makes sense to display.