how to use a tabular in my markdown (any special considerations?)

["John Gabriele" <jgabriele-97jfqw80gc6171pxa8y+qA@public.gmane.org>]

Hi all,

I'm trying to put a tabular element in my markdown file. My LaTeX is a little rusty, but here's what I have

~~~
hi

\begin{tabular}{l l}
^<Up/Down/Left/Right> &  move by word/para \\
<PgUp/PgDn/Home/End>  &  what you expect \\
[a/e                  &  beginning/end of doc \\
^]                    &  go to matching bracket \\
^j                    &  jump to line number \\
\end{tabular}

bye
~~~

This fails with:

~~~
Error producing PDF.
! Missing $ inserted.
<inserted text> 
                $
l.70 ^
~~~

I thought maybe it was those carets (^), so I backslash-escaped them, but then still got this error:

~~~
Error producing PDF.
! Missing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again> 
                   a
l.73 \^]
~~~

What special text rules must I follow in the content of my tabular fields?

***

Background: BTW, the reason I want to do this is because I'm writing a twocolumn landscape pdf, and it turns out that tables don't work in 2-column (see https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/1023 ). I thought maybe it would work because my output pdf is landscape rather than portrait:

    pandoc -t pdf -o foo.pdf -V geometry="margin=0.8in,landscape,twocolumn" -V fontsize=12pt foo.txt

but alas that is not the case. So, I figured I'd get my tables by writing raw latex tabular blocks.

Thanks,
-- John

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