Convert Markdown to LaTeX Online

Paste a Markdown table below, edit it if you need to, and get LaTeX back. The conversion runs in your browser, so nothing is uploaded, there is no size limit and there is no signup.

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What Markdown is

A Markdown table is rows of pipe-separated cells with a dashed rule under the header. Alignment is set by placing colons in that rule.

README files, GitHub issues, documentation sites, Obsidian and Notion.

What LaTeX is

A LaTeX table is a tabular environment: a column specification, ampersands between cells and double backslashes at the end of each row.

Academic papers, theses and anything typeset with LaTeX or written in Overleaf.

What changes when you convert Markdown to LaTeX

Leading and trailing pipes are optional and both are handled. A pipe the author escaped with a backslash is read as data rather than a column break, which is the usual reason a hand-written table parses one column too wide.

Rules are drawn with booktabs by default, which is what most journal templates expect. The characters LaTeX treats as special, & % $ # _ { }, are escaped so a value like 50% compiles instead of ending the line.

What carries over from Markdown to LaTeX

One property of the Markdown has no home in LaTeX, and it is worth knowing which before you convert.

LaTeX is the end of the line for this data. Reading the table back out of it is a separate and much harder problem than writing it, so keep the Markdown if you will need the values again.

The identifier 007 comes out of the LaTeX as 007. Reading it as a number would have made it 7, and an id that changes value is worse than one that stays text.

The role "Analyst, data" survives with its comma, in one cell rather than split across two. That is the first thing to check in any converted table, and the usual place a LaTeX file goes wrong.

The quotes around Jonah "Jo" Pryce are left as a plain quote character in the LaTeX.

A worked example

Three rows of staff data, with an identifier that has a leading zero, a value containing a comma, a value containing quotes and one blank cell. Those are the four places formats disagree, so they are the four places to look.

Markdown in

| id  | name             | role          | started    | hours |
| --- | ---------------- | ------------- | ---------- | ----- |
| 007 | Halima Yusuf     | Analyst, data | 2024-03-15 | 38.5  |
| 012 | Jonah "Jo" Pryce | Engineer      | 2025-11-02 |       |
| 104 | Wei Chen         | Manager       | 2023-06-30 | 40    |

LaTeX out

  \begin{tabular}{lllll}
    \toprule
    id & name & role & started & hours \\
    \midrule
    007 & Halima Yusuf & Analyst, data & 2024-03-15 & 38.5 \\
    012 & Jonah "Jo" Pryce & Engineer & 2025-11-02 &  \\
    104 & Wei Chen & Manager & 2023-06-30 & 40 \\
    \bottomrule
  \end{tabular}

Questions

How do I convert Markdown to LaTeX?

Paste your Markdown into the box above or drop the file onto it. Check the table in the grid, then copy or download the LaTeX from the output panel. It takes one step and the data never leaves your browser.

Can a Markdown table cell contain a line break?

Not directly. The row ends at the newline. Use a <br> tag inside the cell, which every common Markdown renderer passes through to the HTML output.

Why does my table not compile?

The usual cause is a missing package. Booktabs rules need \usepackage{booktabs} in the preamble. Switch the rules option off and the output uses plain \hline instead, which needs nothing.

Can I convert the LaTeX back to Markdown afterwards?

Not mechanically. LaTeX keeps how the table looks, not what it held, so going back means reading the values off the page again. Keep the Markdown if you will need it.

Is there a limit on file size?

No. The work happens on your own machine, so the limit is your machine's memory rather than an upload cap. A file with tens of thousands of rows converts in a second or two.

Is my data uploaded anywhere?

No. The parsing and generating are done by JavaScript running on this page. You can watch the network tab while you convert and see that nothing is sent.