How to export a table as a Markdown table when using org-md-export-to-markdown?

Question

The current behavior of org-md-export-to-markdown is to export Org Mode tables as HTML tables. I would like tables to be exported as Markdown tables (as explained here).

Answer 1

Use the ox-gfm package

The gfm part in the package name stands for "Github Flavored Markdown".

This package is available at MELPA. The source code can be found at this repository at Github. A minimal working example is shown below.

Consider the following Org Mode file

* The first heading

| word    | number |
|---------+--------|
| one     |      1 |
| ten     |     10 |
| hundred |    100 |

* The second heading

#+begin_src bash
echo "Hello World"
#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
#+begin_example
Hello World
#+end_example

By using org-gfm-export-as-markdown (function defined in the ox-gfm package) in the Org Mode buffer, the newly created buffer would look like

# The first heading

| word    | number |
|------- |------ |
| one     | 1      |
| ten     | 10     |
| hundred | 100    |


# The second heading

```bash
echo "Hello World"
```

```
Hello World
```

System information

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(org-version)

9.4.4