Re: Markdown, tables and CSV

[John Gabriele <jgabriele-97jfqw80gc6171pxa8y+qA@public.gmane.org>]

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On Thu, May 26, 2016, at 07:48 AM, Frank Colcord wrote:
> {snip}
> I've handled the csv in previous projects by changing the delimiters
> when saving a spreadsheet so the delimiters are pandoc friendly.
 
I too have done the same thing in the past. LibreOffice can easily
change the column delimiter in a csv file (from commas to pipes, and
back again). But, in the end, even if you only want to copypaste the
table into your .md file and not edit it, it still looks crummy when
reading it in plain text. If I'm going to go through the (albeit
small) hassle of converting csv to use pipes so I can paste it into my
.md file, it's just as easy to use a script to convert the csv into a
pandoc-markdown -formatted table, and paste that in instead. That way,
my doc still is readable as plain text --- you just need to remember
that it's generated content, and so if you want to make changes, do
them in the csv.
 
Because of how easy it is to do that, I'd be inclined to say that Pandoc
could do without introducing extra syntax for automatic rendering of raw
pasted-in csv data.
 
-- John
 

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