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emmylua_doc_cli does not render Markdown tables to HTML

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
72/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
markdown, rust
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start by tracing how emmylua_doc_cli parses Lua documentation comments and converts Markdown when generating HTML. Reproduce with the provided module.lua example and command, then check whether the conversion handles Markdown tables. Done when the table renders as an HTML table in the generated site.

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Description

How to reproduce
  1. create a file module.lua with Lua chunk:
--- Module xxx
---
---### xxx
---
--- | aaa | bbb |
--- | --- | --- |
--- | 1 | 2 |
---
function new()
end

return new
  1. run emmylua_doc_cli: emmylua_doc_cli module.lua -o site -f html
Actual result

table was not rendered:

Image
Expected result

markdown table is rendered as HTML table

Version: emmylua_doc_cli 0.25.1

Dominant language
Rust
Stars
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Forks
101
Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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