Support for table cells that wrap over multiple lines in the Markdown source would be useful for platforms where files have fixed or limited record (line) length.
For example, on IBM z/OS (mainframes), record length might be limited to 80 characters.
I’m using markdown-it (thank you, Alex and Vitaly!), with GFM table support, to render Markdown on the mainframe. In a file with 80-byte records, this works well for tables with a small number of columns and short cell values - that is, where each row occupies less than 80 bytes - but beyond that, tables are unusable in this context.
I have colleagues who maintain tables as plain-text in files with 80-byte records, where table cells wrap over multiple lines. I’d like to be able to suggest some flavor of Markdown (preferably with an existing markdown-it plugin) to format those tables.
(Vitaly, I’ve read, understood, and agree with your comments about implementing GFM table formatting in markdown-it.)