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Is it possible to create a table using markdown?

Is it possible to create a table in Markdown? If not would it be possible to add this functionality? Even if it just means adding <table> <tr> and <td> to the list of allo …
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A WYSIWYG editor please?

Can we have a WYSIWYG editor, much like the publishing tools that Tumblr, Wordpress and such offer? I know there are threads like this one that ask for something similar (or have …
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Ill formatted link produces bad markup in server side Markdown

There is an answer on epicadivce that doesn't seem to be formatting links properly. I'm going to answer the exact same text here to a) test the bug, b) hopefully reproduce it so t …
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Markdown preview doesn’t agree with final output

Edit 3: This has been corrected on S[OFU]. Hopefully the changes will be pushed into SE soon. On my SE site, some users have run into a slight bug in the markdown preview. What …
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BUG: Markdown link not rendering properly

If you look at this question, the text that was supposed to be turned into a link isn't, and the full (escaped) URL is printed, leaking out of the question area into the sidebar. W …
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Auto-encode weird symbols in URLs

A couple of people have noted that URLs with special characters cause the server side implementation of Markdown to choke, and it was a bit of a nuisance on Math Overflow on a few …
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Writing LaTex formulas in posts

What's the state-of-the art of the formulas issue on Stack Exchange websites? A lot of SE administrators have been noting that formula functionality would come in handy: Andy Mik …
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Hard-code the numbers in numerical lists

Is there a way to allow the numerical lists to be hard-coded, yet still have an indent/bullet-point format? I want to list "2 & 3" without 1, but instead I just get: This bu …
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Bug with image alt text in Markdown

This bug has been posted on meta.SO and tagged [status-bydesign], but it really isn't by design; it's a bug. The problem is that the characters _ and * are special characters in m …
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Markdown rendering bug? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Markdown preview doesn’t agree with final output This is a test sentence with bold within words. This is a t**es**t sen**te**nce with b**ol**d w …
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Markdown Improvements

It seems the Stack Overflow team is getting rid of the "to linebreak use 2 spaces at the end". Markdown one year later I just wanted to express my wish to have this markdown impro …