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?

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Wagner Macedo

On 4 July 2015 at 19:26, John MacFarlane <j...-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org> wrote:

+++ kurt.p...@googlemail.com [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.

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