I was expecting Markdown tables to render as per “reading” view in the new live preview but they remain as Markdown. It would be ideal if tables could render fully unless the cursor was inside them. This significantly limits the ability to create the goal of one view for both editing and reading.
Proposed solution
Render tables fully unless the cursor is inside them.
I was expecting that it would come automatically with the Live Preview, because on the roadmap it was saying it was going to be a WYSIWYG editor like Typora: Trello
In my opinion having the Live Preview without rendering tables as in Reading Mode feels unfinished.
another especially useful feature of Typora’s implementation is that you can have line breaks within cells (with <br> tags). I’d really love to see Obsidian match that ease and flexibility of live editing of well formatted tables. Thanks for all the great work!
I don’t understand why not put table live preview in a high priority. Because of the unimportance of table live preview or because of huge technical challenges?
I don’t have much constructive to say other than I would be pleased to see this feature. And in case it’s difficult to add, @stevewrightuk 's suggestion to set the tables in a monospace font in the meantime, would satisfy most of my needs. For me, the main problem with the interface at the moment, is that the code for tables look all jumpy and disordered, because each glyph doesn’t take up the same space. It’s difficult to read the table, simply.