The current extended markdown table caption syntax using the literal English word "Table" is undesirable when writing documents in languages other than English.

From a message to the discussion list (John replying to me):

<http://groups.google.com/group/pandoc-discuss/msg/4903c80d662216ba&gt;

> (That's why I think "Table: Caption" should be > > "[: Caption ]" -- and why can't it go above as well > > as below the table, BTW?)

I'm in favor of some alternative table caption syntax. (Using "Table:" was a mistake, but I'd keep it for backwards compatibility.) One possible syntax would be a paragraph beginning with a colon:

----------- ------- --------------- -------------------------
   First    row                12.0 Example of a row that
                                    spans multiple lines.

  Second    row                 5.0 Here's another one. Note
                                    the blank line between
                                    rows.
-------------------------------------------------------------

: Here's a multiline table without headers.

I'm open to allowing it to go above as well as below, too, if I can do so without a significant decrease in performance.

It would be nice if captions where supported for code blocks and images, too.

Resolved by 7d687684aa4ca0ebbdf4d9a0bcaa1d3ea1a8b7b3