Tables and column widths

Tables and column widths

[Lyndon Drake]

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Hi,

Apologies for all the questions today - I'm having a day working on the 
formatting for my thesis, hence lots of little fiddly things to figure out.

If I use pipe table syntax, I can't get the column widths to adjust as 
nicely as I can if I use an external filter, and I'm not sure why. With the 
pipe table, I have done this:

|-:|:----------|----------:|:-|

which gives me the correct column alignments, but the far left and far 
right columns are wider than I would have expected. If instead I do an 
identical table with the pantable filter, and specify the widths like so:

  width:
- 0.05
- 0.45
- 0.45
- 0.05

the far left and far right columns are about what I'd expect from those 
proportions. But if possible, I'd rather avoid having to use the pantable 
filter just to nudge the column widths. Is there any way to do this in 
pandoc's Markdown table syntax?

Cheers,
Lyndon

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Re: Tables and column widths

[Albert Krewinkel]

Lyndon Drake <isenguard-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> If I use pipe table syntax, I can't get the column widths to adjust as
> nicely as I can if I use an external filter, and I'm not sure why. With
> the pipe table, I have done this:
>
> |-:|:----------|----------:|:-|
> which gives me the correct column alignments, but the far left and far
> right columns are wider than I would have expected. If instead I do an

Columns produced from pipe tables have always the default column width.
You could use a grid table instead:

```
+--+-----------+-----------+--+
| 1| hello     | wassup?   |a |
+=:+:==========+==========:+:=+
| 2| hey       | notmuch   |b |
+--+-----------+-----------+--+
```

Wish you good luck with your thesis!

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Re: Tables and column widths

[Lyndon Drake]

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Actually I've figured out that this one was entirely my fault. The 
documentation does mention that pipe tables set column widths based on 'the 
relative cell widths determined by the number of dashes in the line 
separating the table header from the table body'.

But I wasn't counting the alignment column marker (the ':') as one of the 
dashes. Once I added sufficient extra dashes in the middle left and right 
columns to adjust the proportions, the whole table was set correctly. Which 
is great as it lets me avoid using the pantable filter (a great filter but 
as it's Python it adds quite a few seconds to my build time). That line now 
looks like this:

|-:|:-----------------|-----------------:|:-|


On Sunday, 24 April 2022 at 21:21:20 UTC+12 Albert Krewinkel wrote:

>
> Lyndon Drake <isen...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:
>
> > If I use pipe table syntax, I can't get the column widths to adjust as
> > nicely as I can if I use an external filter, and I'm not sure why. With
> > the pipe table, I have done this:
> >
> > |-:|:----------|----------:|:-|
> > which gives me the correct column alignments, but the far left and far
> > right columns are wider than I would have expected. If instead I do an
>
> Columns produced from pipe tables have always the default column width.
> You could use a grid table instead:
>
> ```
> +--+-----------+-----------+--+
> | 1| hello | wassup? |a |
> +=:+:==========+==========:+:=+
> | 2| hey | notmuch |b |
> +--+-----------+-----------+--+
> ```
>
> Wish you good luck with your thesis!
>
> -- 
> Albert Krewinkel
> GPG: 8eed e3e2 e8c5 6f18 81fe e836 388d c0b2 1f63 1124
>

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