Merge cells in the Tables for Markdown Syntax

This is a GitBook plugin for extending markdown table syntax. You can enable to merge cells in tables with this plugin.

How to install it?

Add it to your book.json configuration:

{
  "plugins": ["cellmerge"]
}

Install this plugin using:

$ gitbook install

How this plugin works?

• To marge columns: Enter > or empty in the cells.

  | a | b |
  |---|---|
  | > | 1 |
  | 2 |   |

• To marge rows: Enter ^ in the cells.

  | a | b |
  |---|---|
  | 1 | 2 |
  | ^ | 4 |

How to add this plugin into package.json

• To insert this plugin into package.json:

  run the following code.

  $ npm install --save gitbook-plugin-cellmerge

As a reference

• This plugin is developed with referring to Markdown Enhanced Preview which is a plugin for Atom or Visual Studio Code.
• This plugin uses Cheerio npm package to parse HTML as dependencies. This plugin is required to install Cheerio to your emvironment.

  $ npm install --save Cheerio