Created an issue and a PR with working markdown-it-multimd-table now 🙂
The syntax really isn't too esoteric in my opinion:
multiline - just add a slash at the end of a row and it will be merged with the next row.
So the table from the first post would look like this:
| Fruit | Price | Advantages |
| :-------------- | :------------------ | :------------------- |
| Bananana | first line | first line | \
| | second line | second line |
| Bananana | first line | first line | \
| | second line | second line |
if you want a cell to span multiple columns just end it with the amount of pipes equal to number of columns you want it to span. Essentially - create a totally empty cells without even a space inside.
For example:
| 2-column header ||
| :--------------------- | ----------------------:|
| single column| single column |
| two columns ||
Rowspan is done by including ^^ in the cell below the one we want to span multiple rows. So for example:
| Fruit | Price | Advantages |
| :-------------- | :------------------ | :------------------- |
| Bananana | two rows | one row |
| Bananana | ^^ | one row |
headerless is self-explaining I think 🙂 Just don't add any header and do everything the same way as it was done.