Am Sonntag, 29. Mai 2016 14:45:35 UTC+2 schrieb mb21:
@Kurt, pandoc-placetable works perfectly to convert csv to markdown table syntax (and any other output format where pandoc supports generating tables):
Sorry, I did not intend to mis-represent what pandoc-placetable currently can do and what it cannot.
I know it can convert to Markdown tables. But (AFAIU) it can generate only one type of table: simple_table.
However, with pandoc-csv2table I can generate simple_table, multiline_table, pipe_table and grid_table types — simply by adding it into the code block metadata: {.table header="yes" type="grid" ....}.
I tried to get the same thing with pandoc --filter pandoc-placetable -t markdown+multiline_tables, but it didn’t work.
(Maybe I’m missing something — then please tell me.)
Cheers, Kurt
On Saturday, May 21, 2016 at 7:03:57 PM UTC+2, kurt.p...@googlemail.com wrote:Am Freitag, 20. Mai 2016 11:39:02 UTC+2 schrieb Martin Fenner:
Dear group,The topic of CSV support in Pandoc has come up several times on this list, includes this thread from 2014:Since last year I work for an organisation that frequently deals with tabular data (and helped organize CSVconf earlier this month), and I have done some thinking on how CSV could fit into Pandoc.Are you aware of these two Pandoc filters?
- pandoc-csv2table (https://github.com/baig/
pandoc-csv2table )- pandoc-placetable (https://
github.com/mb21/pandoc- )placetable Both “abuse” the fenced code block syntax, assign the class
.tableto the block and allow inline CSV data as well as referencing an external CSV file.Personally, I still prefer to use csv2table (over the newer placetable) because I can also use it to convert CSV to Markdown tables (grid, simple and multiline) — which *placetable” currently doesn’t do because it works differently (AFAIU):
- placetable converts CSV to Pandoc’s native format directly
- csv2table converts CSV to Markdown first.