Markdown Back End

The following options are available when the markdown back end is used. Those can be passed as keywords when calling the function pretty_table:

• allow_markdown_in_cells::Bool: By default, special markdown characters like *, _, ~, etc. are escaped in markdown back end to generate valid output. However, this algorithm blocks the usage of markdown code inside of the cells. If this keyword is true, the escape algorithm will not be applied, allowing markdown code inside all the cells. In this case, the user must ensure that the output code is valid. (Default = false)
• highlighters::Union{MarkdownHighlighter, Tuple}: An instance of MarkdownHighlighter or a tuple with a list of Markdown highlighters (see the section Markdown Highlighters).
• show_omitted_cell_summary::Bool: If true, a summary will be printed after the table with the number of columns and rows that were omitted. (Default = false)

The following keywords are available to customize the output decoration:

• header_decoration::MarkdownDecoration: Decoration applied to the header. (Default = MarkdownDecoration(bold = true))
• row_label_decoration::MarkdownDecoration: Decoration applied to the row label column. (Default = MarkdownDecoration())
• row_number_decoration::MarkdownDecoration: Decoration applied to the row number column. (Default = MarkdownDecoration(bold = true))
• subheader_decoration::MarkdownDecoration: Decoration applied to the sub-header. (Default = MarkdownDecoration(code = true))

Markdown Highlighters

A set of highlighters can be passed as a Tuple to the highlighters keyword. Each highlighter is an instance of the structure MarkdownHighlighter. It contains the following two public fields:

• f::Function: Function with the signature f(data, i, j) in which should return true if the element (i,j) in data must be highlighted, or false otherwise.
• fd::Function: Function with the signature fd(h, data, i, j) in which h is the highlighter. This function must return the MarkdownDecoration to be applied to the cell that must be highlighted.

The function f has the following signature:

f(data, i, j)

in which data is a reference to the data that is being printed, and i and j are the element coordinates that are being tested. If this function returns true, the highlight style will be applied to the (i, j) element. Otherwise, the default style will be used.

If the function f returns true, the function fd(h, data, i, j) will be called and must return an element of type MarkdownDecoration that contains the decoration to be applied to the cell.

A markdown highlighter can be constructed using two helpers:

MarkdownHighlighter(f::Function, decoration::MarkdownDecoration)

MarkdownHighlighter(f::Function, fd::Function)

The first will apply a fixed decoration to the highlighted cell specified in decoration whereas the second let the user select the desired decoration by specifying the function fd.

There are a set of pre-defined highlighters (with names hl_*) to make the usage simpler. They are defined in the file ./src/backends/markdown/predefined_highlighters.jl.

julia> t = 0:1:20;

julia> data = hcat(t, ones(length(t)) * 1, 1 * t, 0.5 .* t.^2);

julia> header = (["Time", "Acceleration", "Velocity", "Distance"],
                 [ "[s]",       "[m/s²]",    "[m/s]",      "[m]"]);

julia> hl_v = MarkdownHighlighter((data, i, j) -> (j == 3) && data[i, 3] > 9, MarkdownDecoration(bold = true));

julia> hl_p = MarkdownHighlighter((data, i, j) -> (j == 4) && data[i, 4] > 10, MarkdownDecoration(italic = true));

julia> pretty_table(
    data;
    alignment = [:c, :r, :c, :l],
    backend = Val(:markdown),
    header = header,
    highlighters = (hl_p, hl_v)
)
| **Time**<br>`[s]` | **Acceleration**<br>`[m/s²]` | **Velocity**<br>`[m/s]` | **Distance**<br>`[m]` |
|:-----------------:|-----------------------------:|:-----------------------:|:----------------------|
| 0.0               | 1.0                          | 0.0                     | 0.0                   |
| 1.0               | 1.0                          | 1.0                     | 0.5                   |
| 2.0               | 1.0                          | 2.0                     | 2.0                   |
| 3.0               | 1.0                          | 3.0                     | 4.5                   |
| 4.0               | 1.0                          | 4.0                     | 8.0                   |
| 5.0               | 1.0                          | 5.0                     | _12.5_                |
| 6.0               | 1.0                          | 6.0                     | _18.0_                |
| 7.0               | 1.0                          | 7.0                     | _24.5_                |
| 8.0               | 1.0                          | 8.0                     | _32.0_                |
| 9.0               | 1.0                          | 9.0                     | _40.5_                |
| 10.0              | 1.0                          | **10.0**                | _50.0_                |
| 11.0              | 1.0                          | **11.0**                | _60.5_                |
| 12.0              | 1.0                          | **12.0**                | _72.0_                |
| 13.0              | 1.0                          | **13.0**                | _84.5_                |
| 14.0              | 1.0                          | **14.0**                | _98.0_                |
| 15.0              | 1.0                          | **15.0**                | _112.5_               |
| 16.0              | 1.0                          | **16.0**                | _128.0_               |
| 17.0              | 1.0                          | **17.0**                | _144.5_               |
| 18.0              | 1.0                          | **18.0**                | _162.0_               |
| 19.0              | 1.0                          | **19.0**                | _180.5_               |
| 20.0              | 1.0                          | **20.0**                | _200.0_               |