Re: markdown table to latex

[John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

Distinguish wrapping in input and wrapping in output.  In a grid
or multiline table, you may have to wrap lines in the markdown
source, but that is independent of wrapping in the output.  In
general, the lines will be wrapped differently in the output.

In a pipe table, you can't have wrapping in the input, but you
CAN get wrapping in the output, in some formats.  E.g. HTML -- try
a super-long line in a pipe table, and you'll see that it wraps
in HTML.  It won't wrap in LaTeX, because the LaTeX table model
only allows you to wrap when you know how wide the cell is.
We can get that kind of information from multiline and grid
tables, but not from pipe tables, precisely because pipe tables
are limited to one line per row in the source.

John

+++ Paul Brandt [May 01 14 08:52 ]:
>   Op vrijdag 10 januari 2014 05:40:25 UTC+1 schreef John MacFarlane:
>
>     If you have table cell contents that need to wrap in the output,
>     then
>     you need to use a grid or multiline table.  Pipe tables don't wrap.
>
>   Two remarks:
>    1. That is a pitty: multimarkdown has a perfectly legal (ok, depending
>       on one's point of view) syntax for it (see: [1]this topic in the
>       multimarkdown forum). Shouldn't pandoc support this syntax?
>    2. Maybe I don't understand this, however in my opinion grid or
>       multiline table don't provide the wrap; the user has to do the
>       wrapping himself. These type of tables subsequently accept the
>       wrapped layout. That is a pitty as well because the
>       wrapping-problem is pushed to the user realm as opposed to the
>       software realm. I hope that I have misunderstood the use and syntax
>       of grid and multiline tables??
>
>   Thanks in advance for your response,
>   Best
>       PaulB
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