An update... I was working on small examples to reproduce and noticed the 
HTML tables appear to be caused by multiple lines in a cell, which makes 
sense why grid tables work, but pipe tables did not.

I am working around using a filter to join multiple lines with 
RawInline('html', '<br/>').

On Monday, March 21, 2022 at 11:49:48 AM UTC-5 Paul Close wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am using pandoc to translate MS Word to gfm (markdown subset) and having 
> a problem where some tables are output as HTML instead of the expected 
> markdown. I found if I use grid_tables, there is no problem, but due to 
> needing gfm format I need to stick with pipe_tables. 
>
> It appears to be related to table width, though I tried some options 
> including --wrap=none and --columns=1000 but neither changed the output.
>
> Is there some way I can force output of pipe_tables, even if they are ugly 
> or overly long? If not, might it be possible to write a lua script to force 
> table input into a pipe_table output? Ideally I'd like some way to control 
> (or even know) when pandoc would decide to output HTML.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts!
>

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