Here are two KeyBoard Maestro macros which:
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Make it easy to create and pretty-print text tables (MMD Format)
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Provide conversion from simple outlines to nested MMD tables, and vice versa.
Automatically complete, pretty-print, and convert MultiMarkdown tables in FoldingText
Two Keyboard Maestro macros
- Convert to, or pretty-print, an MMD Table (flat or nested)
- Convert from a (flat or nested) MMD table to an MD outline.
FT Table and Outline.kmmacros
Installation
- If you have installed Github for Mac you should be able to open and install the KM Macros by clicking the open button at the top of this page
- Otherwise save the plist text on that page as a text file with the .kmmacros extension, and open it in KeyBoard Maestro.
Use
- Place your cursor anywhere in rough table or MD outline,
- run one of the two macros from KM.
Pretty-print as MMD table
(from selected rough table or md outline)
- Performs automatic completion and monospaced pretty-printing of an existing MMD table containing the cursor,
alpha|beta|gamma
1|23|45
7|8|9
Is converted to:
| alpha | beta | gamma |
|:-----:|:----:|:-----:|
| 1 | 23 | 45 |
| 7 | 8 | 9 |
- or converts a Markdown outline containing the cursor to a nested MMD table.
# Three Sections
- Section One
- 1
- 4
- 9
- Section Two
- 16
- 25
- 36
- Section Three
- 49
- 64
- 81
Is converted to:
| Three Sections |||||||||
|:---:|:--:|:--:|:---:|:--:|:--:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
| Section One ||| Section Two ||| Section Three |||
| 1 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 25 | 36 | 49 | 64 | 81 |
Convert (nested or flat) table to outline
- Reverses the kind of outline → nested table conversion above (gives an automatic table → outline conversion)
Place the cursor anywhere in a simple MD outline or a nested MMD table, and run one of these Keyboard Maestro macros.
The → Table script can also be used to pretty-print or complete a partially specified MMD table (nested - with some parent cells spanning child cells - or flat/tabular)
The → Outline script translates the nesting structure of the selected MMD table to an outline combining hash headings with tab-indented lists.
Example of a source outline and a table generated from that outline (previewed in Marked):
The outline and the MMD table text version in FoldingText:
- Pair of Keyboard Maestro macros for table completion, pretty-printing, and conversion MD Outline ⇄ Nested MMD table.