Hello guys.
I don't like how longtable handle with tables, spanning across pages without needing, so I took advantage of the filtering mechanism and I did a filter in python to generate the tables in a more traditional way (in the sense of Latex) and I'm sharing with you below.
Please make suggestions, I did the things a few hardcoded because I didn't see other way.
To understand what the filter do, let's say I have a file with the following table:
test.mkd
Code Name
------ ------
1 Pandoc
2 Latex
3 Writer
Table: My *best* tools
The normal generated latex code would be
test-longtable.tex
\begin{longtable}[c]{@{}cl@{}}
\toprule\addlinespace
Code & Name
\\\addlinespace
\midrule\endhead
1 & Pandoc
\\\addlinespace
2 & Latex
\\\addlinespace
3 & Writer
\\\addlinespace
\bottomrule
\addlinespace
\caption{My \emph{best} tools}
\end{longtable}
But using the filter, the latex code will be
test-tabular.tex
\begin{table}[ht]
\caption{My \emph{best} tools}
\begin{tabular}{@{}cl@{}}
\toprule
Code & Name \\\midrule
1 & Pandoc \\
2 & Latex \\
3 & Writer \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
Note I put \caption above as is more common to my writings.
filter.py
import pandocfilters as pf
def latex(s):
return pf.RawBlock('latex', s)
def inlatex(s):
return pf.RawInline('latex', s)
def tbl_caption(s):
return pf.Para([inlatex(r'\caption{')] + s + [inlatex('}')])
def tbl_alignment(s):
aligns = {
"AlignDefault": 'l',
"AlignLeft": 'l',
"AlignCenter": 'c',
"AlignRight": 'r',
}
return ''.join([aligns[e['t']] for e in s])
def tbl_headers(s):
result = s[0][0]['c'][:]
for i in range(1, len(s)):
result.append(inlatex(' & '))
result.extend(s[i][0]['c'])
result.append(inlatex(r' \\\midrule'))
return pf.Para(result)
def tbl_contents(s):
result = []
for row in s:
para = []
for col in row:
para.extend(col[0]['c'])
para.append(inlatex(' & '))
result.extend(para)
result[-1] = inlatex(r' \\' '\n')
return pf.Para(result)
def do_filter(k, v, f, m):
if k == "Table":
return [latex(r'\begin{table}[ht]' '\n' r'\centering' '\n'),
tbl_caption(v[0]),
latex(r'\begin{tabular}{@{}%s@{}}' % tbl_alignment(v[1]) +
('\n' r'\toprule')),
tbl_headers(v[3]),
tbl_contents(v[4]),
latex(r'\bottomrule' '\n' r'\end{tabular}'),
latex(r'\end{table}')]
if __name__ == "__main__":
pf.toJSONFilter(do_filter)
--
Wagner Macedo