Doesn't properly interpret Textile cell attributes about pandoc HOT 6 CLOSED

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Note that Pandoc's internal table model is limited in various ways -- it does not support attributes or colspan. That is why the textile table is not interpreted as you would like it to be.

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It'd be at least useful if it would ignore the attributes/spans and still convert the table and just retain the attributes within the cell or even dispose of them. As it stands, it completely ignores the table.

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Hi, advanced textile table are unlikely to be supported anytime soon by pandoc, because they have no intermediate representation. IMO this is fine, since it keeps pandoc clean, and wiki table is a domain that mostly sucks anyway. Anything beside the most trivial table is a pain to write in a plain text format and quickly becomes unreadable. That's a limitation of the wiki text model. If your target backend can render advanced tables (HTML, LaTeX), you can certainly include them raw for best results.

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In #1922 (comment) @jgm expressed the idea to ignore unsupported formatting markers, so they at least don't end up in final ouput. I'd be in favor of that, since that would kind of solve mangled output such as the following case:

Textile input:

|{background:#ddd}. Cell with background|Normal|
|\2. Cell spanning 2 columns|
|/2. Cell spanning 2 rows|one|
|two|
|>. Right-aligned cell|<. Left-aligned cell|

Actual output to markdown_github:

|                                          |                         |
|------------------------------------------|-------------------------|
| {background:\#ddd}. Cell with background | Normal                  |
| \\2. Cell spanning 2 columns             |
| /2. Cell spanning 2 rows                 | one                     |
| two                                      |
| >. Right-aligned cell                 | <. Left-aligned cell |

Minimal expected output, by dropping all formatting markup:

|                         |                   |
|-------------------------|-------------------|
| Cell with background    | Normal            |
| Cell spanning 2 columns |
| Cell spanning 2 rows    | one               |
| two                     |
| Right-aligned cell      | Left-aligned cell |

Better expected output, by kind of supporting rowspan:

|                         |                   |
|-------------------------|-------------------|
| Cell with background    | Normal            |
| Cell spanning 2 columns |
| Cell spanning 2 rows    | one               |
|                         | two               |
| Right-aligned cell      | Left-aligned cell |

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Commit 3490932 should improve things considerably.

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