bug: pipeline tables not rendered correctly

[raffaem]

Neovim version (nvim -v)

0.10

Operating system

Arch Linux

Terminal emulator / GUI

Kitty

Describe the bug

pandoc's pipeline tables are rendered with the colons after the header.

Moreover, if the table is the first thing in the document, its horizontal line above the header is not rendered at all.

Example:

| **Holiday n. 1** |            |
|:-----------------|:-----------|
| Start            | 2024-06-03 |
| End              | 2024-06-18 |
| Accounting       | 2024-06-25 |

| **Holiday n. 2** |            |
|:-----------------|:-----------|
| Start            | 2024-06-03 |
| End              | 2024-06-18 |
| Accounting       | 2024-06-25 |

Screenshot:

Expected behavior

Tables should be rendered without the colons that describe the alignment (and correct alignment of the columns) and the first table should be rendered with the first line above its header

Healthcheck output (:checkhealth render-markdown)

render-markdown: require("render-markdown.health").check()

markdown.nvim [neovim version] ~

• OK Version >= 0.10

markdown.nvim [configuration] ~

• OK valid

markdown.nvim [nvim-treesitter] ~

• OK installed
• OK markdown: parser installed
• OK markdown_inline: parser installed
• OK latex: parser installed
• OK highlights enabled

markdown.nvim [executables] ~

• OK latex2text: installed

Additional information

No response

[MeanderingProgrammer]

Virtual lines above the first line do not work quite how you would expect, this is a known issue in neovim: neovim/neovim#16166.

I'll see about replacing alignment colons, some users prefer them to be present, but maybe there's a better way to show this information.

Automatic column alignment will not be done by this plugin.

[raffaem]

Automatic column alignment will not be done by this plugin.

I mean only visually of course.

The colons signal the column alignment.

[MeanderingProgrammer]

I am aware of what the colon signals.

If you want this plugin to take a left aligned column and align it to the right because the colon for the column is on the right side, even "only visually" that will not happen. At least for a while, I've tried implementing it before and it ends up inconsistent but I can give it another shot later.

[MeanderingProgrammer]

Alignment indicators added in this commit: a273033, which replace the colons.

Have a todo to maybe handle column alignment but I'll track that separately.

Please update and LMK what ya think.

[raffaem]

Interesting, here is the new rendering of the example for reference: