This gist shows how to use AsciiDoc formatting inside a table

AsciiDocInsideTable.adoc

Sometimes you need to write AsciiDoc within a table, but the standard is that most AsciiDoc formattings don’t work inside a table, onyl the basic syntax:

Col1	Col2
Basic fomatting like bold works	advanced formatting like * bullet * lists do not work out of the box

The solution is to tell AsciiDoc that you need the AsciiDoc formatting. There are two ways to do this.

per cell

Just add the chracter a in front of the | pipe symbol for the cell and AsciiDoctor will render the cell as AsciiDoc

Col1	Col2
Basic fomatting like bold works	advanced formatting like bullet lists now work

per column

You can also configure your columns. Put a [cols="a,a"] in front of your table and both columns will be rendered as AsciiDoc

Col1	Col2
Basic fomatting like bold works	advanced formatting like bullet lists now work
even complex formattings like source code highlighting works this way	5.times { println it }