Create a Table with highlighted Source Code in Asciidoc

I would like to highlight some of my code in tables. I tried many ways but I could get it fixed.

I would appreciate if someone can help me.

1 Answer

great question!

Most AsciiDoc syntax is not rendered inside a table, only basic syntax like *bold*. You have to explicitly tell Asciidoctor to render the whole feature set.

There are two ways to do so:

1) prepend the character a to the | of the cell where you want Asciidoctor to render the full syntax

2) configure a whole column to be rendered as AsciiDoc by stating your wish in front of the table: [cols="a,a"] will render a AsciiDoc in both columns of a two column table.

here is a gist to demonstrate this:

docs can be found here:

Examples:

|==== |Col1 | Col2 | even complex formattings like source code highlighting works this way a| [source, groovy] ---- 5.times { println it } ---- |==== 

[cols="a,a"] |==== |Col1 | Col2 | even complex formattings like source code highlighting works this way | [source, groovy] ---- 5.times { println it } ---- |==== 

See the gist for a rendering of these examples