Benjamin Banneker's 1793 Almanack and Ephemeris

TRANSCRIBING TABLES WITH MARKDOWN Markdown Table Instructions: Tables can be created by assembling dividing words with hyphens - (at least three and between the first group of text and the next), and separating each column with a pipe | | First Header | Second Header | | ------------- | ------------- | | Content Cell | Content Cell | | Content Cell | Content Cell | *Note that the dashes at the top don't need to match the length of the header text exactly: | Name | Description | | ------------- | ----------- | | Joe |Farmer| | Sue | Cook | *If the table is just columns without borders you can leave out the outer pipes Column 1 | Column 2 ------------- | ------- Joe | Farmer Sue | Cook To style the table here are additional tips: Including colons (:) within the header row defines the text alignment: Left-aligned: |:-----------| Right-aligned: |-----------:| Center-aligned: |:----------:| Transcribing Numbers in Tables While transcribing and reviewing almanac tables, you may see numbers on their side. Please transcribe these as though they were upright with standard numerals: 1, 2, 3, etc.