Text Formatting ⇒ Issues with the markdown package

[lrPrentice]

Hello,

I'm running:
$ tex --version
TeX 3.14159265 (TeX Live 2017/Debian)
kpathsea version 6.2.3
on
Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS

I'm striving to use the markdown package:
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/CTAN/macros/ ... kdown.html

The User Manual says:

The package requires a working TeX distribution. TeX Live ≥ 2013
The package comes pre-installed with TeX Live ≥ 2016
So, clearly, I meet that requirement.

I'm striving to run the following document based on the example in the Markdown User Manual:

\documentclass[11pt]{article}

\usepackage[pipeTables]{markdown}

\begin{document}

\begin{markdown}

| 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 |
|:---------:|:---------:|:------ ---:|:---------:|:---------:|:---------:|:----------:|
| 384,575 | 367,548 | 361,561 | 339,337 | 372,342 | 399,484 | 390,724 |

\end{markdown}

\end{document}

But I get this error:

! Package keyval Error: pipeTables undefined.
See the keyval package documentation for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
...
l.372 \ProcessOptions\relax
?
! Emergency stop.
...
l.372 \ProcessOptions\relax
! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Transcript written on test.log

Can some kind soul tell me why pipeTables is undefined, and how I can define it?

Many thanks,

LRP

[rais]

You seem to mix the markdown's documentation from the current (or, at least, more recent) version with the somewhat outdated version from your system. `pipeTables' is a known option for the markdown package since around TL'19...you claim to run TL'17. Go, figure;-)

KR
Rainer

[lrPrentice]

Thank you!

Upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04 did the trick---now tables work fine. Still some issues, however. But I'll ask about these in future posts.

I would like to thank Vít Novotný personally for his wonderful package, but here doesn't seem to a way to do so.

All the best,

LRP

[Ijon Tichy]

I would like to thank Vít Novotný personally for his wonderful package, but here doesn't seem to a way to do so.

Why not? There is an email address in the title of the markdown manual.