Re: Is the usage of "longtable" hard-coded into current Pandoc?

[Richard Huntsinger <rhuntsinger-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

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Yes!  We need a way to generate tabular rather longtable tables to deal 
with nested tables.  longtable does not support nested tables, tabular 
does.  Meanwhile, can you suggest some work-around to deal with nested 
tables?  

On Saturday, July 4, 2015 at 4:54:27 PM UTC-7 Wagner Macedo wrote:

> Hello John,
>
> I also have an issue with long tables due to 'longtables' sometimes 
> unnecessarily split small tables (depending where you insert). So, while we 
> don't have a better option how about if pandoc provide an option to use 
> standard tabular instead of the default longtables?
>
> --
> Wagner Macedo 
>
> On 4 July 2015 at 19:26, John MacFarlane <j...-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> +++ kurt.p...-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org [Jul 04 15 11:41 ]:
>>
>>>   It occurred to me that what I had thought of previously may not work:
>>>   modifying the LaTeX template to not use `longtable`, but another
>>>   package instead and get classoption `twocolumn` to work.
>>>   This may be because the LaTeX  "micro code" (my name for it) for tables
>>>   may not work when simply loading a different table package. Is this
>>>   assumption correct?
>>>
>>
>> Correct, use of longtable is hard coded.  This is quite
>> unfortunate, and I've long been wanting a better alternative
>> that will work with 2-column text but also break across
>> pages when needed.  Haven't found one yet.
>>
>> Failing that, it may be worth having an option for regular
>> tables.
>>
>>   Do I indeed have to resort into writing my own raw LaTeX code if I want
>>>   tables in two-column output?
>>>
>>
>> It's probably possible to redefine the longtable environment
>> to something else in your preamble.
>
>
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