Re: Latex tables using tabular instead of longtable

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

Thanks for sharing.  How does it deal with footnotes in tables?
(That is one thing that longtable does better.)

+++ Wagner Macedo [Jun 30 14 22:59 ]:
>   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
>
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