Re: variable layout grid table ("advanced grid table syntax")

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

Currently there's no support for rowspans (i.e., variable
number of columns per row).

+++ sjm324-HmMyXyqgL2CVc3sceRu5cw@public.gmane.org [Aug 19 17 18:25 ]:
>   Hello!
>   I searched and searched but perhaps was using the wrong terms.  I
>   played around a lot with using rules, whether or not "single column
>   rows" have three or two + characters (both above and below, depending
>   on what is below it), but I'm not sure I'm getting the grid table
>   syntax right for pandoc.  Or perhaps this is not supported?
>   I would like to be able to layout a grid table with variable number of
>   columns per row.  The following is what I am working with:
>   test.md contents:
>   The Grid Table
>   =======================================================================
>   =================
>   This table works in reStructuredText (tested with Sphinx).  Is there a
>   way to support
>   this in `pandoc`?
>   +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------
>   ----------------+
>   |                  Raw Camera Data Range: 20 --- 120cm (8in --- 4ft)
>                   |
>   +===========================================+==========================
>   ================+
>   |                                   Face recognition
>                   |
>   +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------
>   ----------------+
>   | Detection                                 | 25 --- 75 cm
>                   |
>   +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------
>   ----------------+
>   | Landmark                                  | 30 --- 100 cm
>                  |
>   +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------
>   ----------------+
>   | Recognition                               | 30 --- 80 cm
>                   |
>   +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------
>   ----------------+
>   | Expression                                | 30 --- 100 cm
>                  |
>   +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------
>   ----------------+
>   | Pulse                                     | 30 --- 60 cm
>                   |
>   +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------
>   ----------------+
>   | Pose                                      | 30 --- 100 cm
>                  |
>   +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------
>   ----------------+
>   |                                   Hand Recognition
>                   |
>   +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------
>   ----------------+
>   | Blob Segmentation                         | 20 --- 85 cm
>                   |
>   +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------
>   ----------------+
>   | Hand Segmentation                         | 20 --- 80 cm
>                   |
>   +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------
>   ----------------+
>   | Tracking                                  | 20 --- 60 cm
>                   |
>   +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------
>   ----------------+
>   | Gesture                                   | 20 --- 60 cm
>                   |
>   +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------
>   ----------------+
>   Option 2
>   =======================================================================
>   =================
>   With rules for `pandoc`, to avoid centered rows being turned into
>   verbatim (which makes
>   sense):
>   +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------
>   ----------------+
>   | Raw Camera Data Range: 20 --- 120cm (8in --- 4ft)
>                  |
>   +:=========================================:+:=========================
>   ===============:+
>   | Face recognition
>                   |
>   +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------
>   ----------------+
>   | Detection                                 | 25 --- 75 cm
>                   |
>   +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------
>   ----------------+
>   | Landmark                                  | 30 --- 100 cm
>                  |
>   +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------
>   ----------------+
>   | Recognition                               | 30 --- 80 cm
>                   |
>   +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------
>   ----------------+
>   | Expression                                | 30 --- 100 cm
>                  |
>   +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------
>   ----------------+
>   | Pulse                                     | 30 --- 60 cm
>                   |
>   +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------
>   ----------------+
>   | Pose                                      | 30 --- 100 cm
>                  |
>   +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------
>   ----------------+
>   | Hand recognition
>                   |
>   +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------
>   ----------------+
>   | Blob Segmentation                         | 20 --- 85 cm
>                   |
>   +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------
>   ----------------+
>   | Hand Segmentation                         | 20 --- 80 cm
>                   |
>   +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------
>   ----------------+
>   | Tracking                                  | 20 --- 60 cm
>                   |
>   +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------
>   ----------------+
>   | Gesture                                   | 20 --- 60 cm
>                   |
>   +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------
>   ----------------+
>   to generate (grid_table.sh as executable file in same directory as
>   test.md):
>   #!/usr/bin/env bash
>   markdown_configs="-f
>   markdown+grid_tables+pipe_tables+simple_tables+multiline_tables+tex_mat
>   h_dollars --column=88"
>   doctype="-t latex --latex-engine=xelatex"
>   inputs="test.md"
>   pandoc $markdown_configs $doctype $inputs -o test.pdf
>   rendered output
>   see attached test.pdf
>   Note: same results regardless of latex engine, but included because the
>   actual thing I am working with must be xelatex.
>   Thanks for explaining what should change or if this cannot be
>   supported.  Extra thanks, if unsupported, for a (brief!) explanation of
>   why -- I'm genuinely interested ;)
>   -Stephen
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