Markdown Table Formatter

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Introduction

Markdown Table Formatter is a minimalistic utility for formatting Markdown tables. It calculates the maximum column widths to align the content, allowing you to paste the result directly into a Markdown document.

License

This sofware is released under the MIT license.

Dependencies

Markdown Table Formatter is written in Python 3 with a GTK-3/4 GUI. There is also a version using TCL/TK.

No libraries other than the standard library and the GUI libraries are used.

Installation

There is no need to install anything to use this software. Just open (run) the markdown-table-formatter.py with python.

If You prefer a GTK3 interface, rename the script markdown-table-formatter-gtk3.py.

To install the program and the desktop file:

  • ensure script name has no -gtk3 suffix,
  • run make install [DESTDIR=…] [PREFIX=/usr],
  • or make install-gtk3 ….