Features I’d Love in Markdown

Markdown is absolutely awesome, but there are still some things I’d love to become standard in it.

Tables Without Headers

this	would	be
very	nice	tbh

Syntax

Honestly, this wouldn’t be too difficult to add, just omit the headers:

| :--- | :---- | :-- |
| this | would | be  |
| very | nice  | tbh |

Table Cell Span

an		inbuilt
way	to		do
this		would
be	very		nice

Syntax

| :---- | :---- | :---- | :---- |

Image Caption

Images often need a caption, and it’d be nice if there a nice conventional way to add one without hacks like <div align="center"> or whatever.

Syntax

![picture](source)
> caption

Quote Author

A way to add a right-align the source of a quote:

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
     – Anon

Syntax

> The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
- Anon