From 7d687684aa4ca0ebbdf4d9a0bcaa1d3ea1a8b7b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John MacFarlane Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 21:01:26 -0700 Subject: Allow language-neutral table captions. + Captions may now begin simply with ':', instead of 'Table:' + Captions may now appear either above or below the table. + Resolves Issue #227. --- README | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 5fe93b504..1519c8113 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -824,7 +824,8 @@ to the dashed line below it:[^4] The table must end with a blank line, or a line of dashes followed by a blank line. A caption may optionally be provided (as illustrated in the example above). A caption is a paragraph beginning with the string -`Table:`, which will be stripped off. +`Table:` (or just `:`), which will be stripped off. It may appear either +before or after the table. The column headers may be omitted, provided a dashed line is used to end the table. For example: @@ -880,7 +881,7 @@ Headers may be omitted in multiline tables as well as simple tables: rows. ------------------------------------------------------------- - Table: Here's a multiline table without headers. + : Here's a multiline table without headers. It is possible for a multiline table to have just one row, but the row should be followed by a blank line (and then the row of dashes that ends -- cgit v1.2.3