Table Magic previews MD table OK; Drafts does not

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Can anyone shed light as to why using Agile Tortoise’s excellent Markdown Action Group, I cannot get it to preview tables correctly. When I use the built in Table Editor (Table Magic), the markdown is correctly interpreted but when previewing in Drafts or sharing to print, the formatting is ignored?

Many thanks. Newbie here, although I’m a long term casual Drafts user, I’m now getting more deeply into it.

Here’s the markdown

February March
1806111822_WRMT_DHC 2103191503_WRMT_DHC 6
1811061630_WRMT_DHC 30 2210141925_WRMT_DHC 1
1908131600_WRMT_DHC 27 2210141925_WRMT_DHC 4
1910051534_WRMT_DHC 14 1802281622_WRMT_DHC 1
2106221531_WRMT_DHC 1 1902031200_WRMT_DHC 2
1711271143_WRMT_DHC 15

As you can see, this works. Just can’t get it to preview in Drafts.

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Can you put an exact copy of your Markdown between triple back ticks so we can see if we can reproduce and diagnose the issue? The forum uses Markdown so converts it here so and so we can’t be sure of the exact starting source.

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How do you have your Markdown Settings configured in Drafts settings?

Tables are supported in both the MultiMarkdown and GitHub parsers that ship with Drafts, but there are options on both of these that can disable tables. If you are using GitHub, make sure the “Table” setting is enabled. If you are using MultiMarkdown, make sure you have not selected “Markdown compatibility mode”, which disables extensions (like tables) that are not part of the original Markdown spec.

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Here you go:

**Margery — Image Sources **

| **Month**    | **Image Source**        | **No** |
|----------|---------------------|----|
| February | 1806111822_WRMT_DHC |    |
|          | 1811061630_WRMT_DHC | 30 |
|          | 1908131600_WRMT_DHC | 27 |
|          | 1910051534_WRMT_DHC | 14 |
|          | 2106221531_WRMT_DHC | 1  |
|          | 1711271143_WRMT_DHC | 15 |
| March    | 2103191503_WRMT_DHC | 6  |
|          | 2210141925_WRMT_DHC | 1  |
|          | 2210141925_WRMT_DHC | 4  |
|          | 1802281622_WRMT_DHC | 1  |
|          | 1902031200_WRMT_DHC | 2  |
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Switching to GitHub and ensuring “Tables” option is selected seems to have fixed the problem.

Thank you for your help. Very much appreciated.