oh but you *can* make tables with simple markdown, it's just they are regular HTML...

diff --git a/doc/plugins/table.mdwn b/doc/plugins/table.mdwn
index bae859176dc6ffade2fe4e22185fb322d966f927..d16bcc7265dd232d3f7c0bda7ae51df9768c362b 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/plugins/table.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/table.mdwn
@@ -9,4 +9,4 @@ It needs the perl module [[!cpan Text::CSV]] for the CSV data.
 
 Note that you can also build tables in [[ikiwiki/Markdown]] pages
 without using this plugin, by enabling the `multimarkdown` option
-and installing the [[!cpan Text::MultiMarkdown]] Perl module.
+and installing the [[!cpan Text::MultiMarkdown]] Perl module or simply by using the `<table>` HTML tag.