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 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. > > >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "pandoc-discuss" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to pandoc-discus...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org >> To post to this group, send email to pandoc-...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/20150704222645.GD11787%40localhost.hsd1.ca.comcast.net >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/274d6172-acc6-4d08-a27a-32d40615dd91n%40googlegroups.com.