Re: Feature Idea: docx -> HTML table styling

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my use case is to use pandoc md as a quasi-universal way to write text that 
I can output to pdf, html, and pptx.  unfortunately, I am limited by the 
lack of multi-column cells :-(.



On Friday, June 17, 2022 at 10:36:15 AM UTC-7 John MacFarlane wrote:

> Daniel Staal <DSt...-Jdbf3xiKgS8@public.gmane.org> writes:
>
> > On 6/16/22 1:21 PM, John MacFarlane wrote:
> >> I don't know what the best solution is. Pandoc is really
> >> designed to preserve the features of documents that are encoded
> >> in its types. Anything else -- including the use of
> >> "stringly typed" attributes -- is a bit of a hack, and tends to
> >> lead to unmaintainable messes down the road.
> >> 
> >> We could try to establish some generic conventions for
> >> representing things like vertical-alignment in the attributes,
> >> e.g. with a "vertical-align" attribute that gets interpreted
> >> by different writers, but as I said, once we depart from the
> >> structured types things get to be a bit of a mess.
> >
> > A thought: One option would be to suggest some generic conventions for 
> > readers, but maintain that *writers* will ignore anything not in the 
> > official AST. This would allow people like the original poster to 
> > handle many issues with custom LUA filters/writers, and if any 
> > particular attribute becomes widespread in readers you can decide if you 
> > want to adopt it into the official AST and add it to writers.
>
> That's more or less what I was thinking.
>

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