On a very related note, here's what I'm trying to work with:

*Diakonia* in the 20th century consensus | *Diakonia* in the 
re-interpretation
-------------------- | ------------------------
ordinary everyday word | formal language and comparatively rare
basic meaning "service at table" | no basic meaning but, according to 
context, conveying meanings relating to message, agency, attendance
adopted by Christians to express lowly values | selected by the same 
literary criteria as apply in non-Christian usage; the word does not 
necessarily imply that an activity is of a lowly nature
no overtones of authority or power | necessarily implies the carrying out 
of a commission from a person or institution--with whatever level of 
authority or power this requires
applicable indiscriminately to all the baptised and their activities | in 
ecclesial contexts, applied in fact only to specific individuals and their 
roles
[Changing interpretation of *Diakonia*]

ie, a simple table with 1+5 rows of long text, 2 columns, plus a caption on 
the final line.

Problem 1, is that as written it fails to render as a table at all. If I 
put a blank line before the [Caption] then it renders the table, though 
without a real caption.

Problem 2, is that the column widths aren't calculated, and they extend way 
over the edge of the page. This even happens with --columns=500 option to 
pandoc.

What can I change to make the table work with these long text items, and 
caption?

Thanks,

Jonathan



On Thursday, 18 April 2013 22:07:36 UTC+1, fiddlosopher wrote:
>
> +++ Bernhard Weichel [Apr 18 13 13:15 ]: 
> >    Am Donnerstag, 18. April 2013 18:05:31 UTC+2 schrieb fiddlosopher: 
> > 
> >      >    1. control the column witdths 
> >      You can already.  Pandoc computes column widths (relative to page 
> >      width) based on the sizes of the columns in the markdown table. 
> >      So, if the first column is twice as wide as the second in your 
> >      source, it will be in your output as well. 
> > 
> >    To be honest, not really. In my documents the table width is larger 
> >    than \textwidth. 
>
> Most likely that is because your source documents are wider than pandoc 
> expects (default is 72 characters).  Try using --columns. 
>
>

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