variable layout grid table ("advanced grid table syntax")

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Hello!

I searched and searched but perhaps was using the wrong terms.  I played 
around a lot with using rules, whether or not "single column rows" have 
three or two *+* characters (both above and below, depending on what is 
below it), but I'm not sure I'm getting the grid table syntax right for 
pandoc.  Or perhaps this is not supported?

I would like to be able to layout a grid table with variable number of 
columns per row.  The following is what I am working with:

*test.md* contents:

The Grid Table
========================================================================================

This table works in reStructuredText (tested with Sphinx).  Is there a way 
to support
this in `pandoc`?

+-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
|                  Raw Camera Data Range: 20 --- 120cm (8in --- 4ft)       
            |
+===========================================+==========================================+
|                                   Face recognition                       
            |
+-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| Detection                                 | 25 --- 75 cm                 
            |
+-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| Landmark                                  | 30 --- 100 cm                 
           |
+-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| Recognition                               | 30 --- 80 cm                 
            |
+-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| Expression                                | 30 --- 100 cm                 
           |
+-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| Pulse                                     | 30 --- 60 cm                 
            |
+-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| Pose                                      | 30 --- 100 cm                 
           |
+-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
|                                   Hand Recognition                       
            |
+-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| Blob Segmentation                         | 20 --- 85 cm                 
            |
+-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| Hand Segmentation                         | 20 --- 80 cm                 
            |
+-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| Tracking                                  | 20 --- 60 cm                 
            |
+-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| Gesture                                   | 20 --- 60 cm                 
            |
+-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+

Option 2
========================================================================================

With rules for `pandoc`, to avoid centered rows being turned into verbatim (which 
makes
sense):

+-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| Raw Camera Data Range: 20 --- 120cm (8in --- 4ft)                         
           |
+:=========================================:+:========================================:+
| Face recognition                                                         
            |
+-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| Detection                                 | 25 --- 75 cm                 
            |
+-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| Landmark                                  | 30 --- 100 cm                 
           |
+-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| Recognition                               | 30 --- 80 cm                 
            |
+-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| Expression                                | 30 --- 100 cm                 
           |
+-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| Pulse                                     | 30 --- 60 cm                 
            |
+-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| Pose                                      | 30 --- 100 cm                 
           |
+-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| Hand recognition                                                         
            |
+-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| Blob Segmentation                         | 20 --- 85 cm                 
            |
+-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| Hand Segmentation                         | 20 --- 80 cm                 
            |
+-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| Tracking                                  | 20 --- 60 cm                 
            |
+-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| Gesture                                   | 20 --- 60 cm                 
            |
+-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+












*to generate (grid_table.sh as executable file in same directory as 
test.md):#!/usr/bin/env bashmarkdown_configs="-f 
markdown+grid_tables+pipe_tables+simple_tables+multiline_tables+tex_math_dollars 
--column=88"doctype="-t latex --latex-engine=xelatex"inputs="test.md"pandoc 
$markdown_configs $doctype $inputs -o test.pdfrendered output*
see attached 

*test.pdfNote*: same results regardless of latex engine, but included 
because the actual thing I am working with must be xelatex.

Thanks for explaining what should change or if this cannot be supported.  
Extra thanks, if unsupported, for a (brief!) explanation of why -- I'm 
genuinely interested ;)

-Stephen


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