This creates the following structure -- all ok, except the table body, 
which is empty ('[]'), and I cannot get it to appear. Any suggestions on 
what I'm doing wrong would be gratefully received.

```
Table
    ( "" , [] , [] )
    (Caption Nothing [])
    [ ( AlignLeft , ColWidthDefault )
    , ( AlignDefault , ColWidthDefault )
    ]
    (TableHead ( "" , [] , [] ) [])
    []
    (TableFoot ( "" , [] , [] ) [])
```
On Wednesday, May 25, 2022 at 12:48:06 PM UTC+1 msprev wrote:

> I've been struggling to get my head around handling tables with Lua in 
> pandoc 2.18. I'm trying to write a minimal working example to create a 
> table as I can't seem to find one online. The code below does create a 
> table, but with any empty table body and I can't figure out how to get the 
> body to appear. Can anyone help tell me what has gone wrong here?
>
> BTW, I tried to call the pandoc.TableBody() constructor, but that throws 
> an error as it doesn't seem to be defined ("attempt to call a nil value 
> (field 'TableBody')")
>
> ```
> local caption = {long = {}}
> local colspecs = {{pandoc.AlignLeft, pandoc.ColWidthDefault},
> {pandoc.AlignDefault, pandoc.ColWidthDefault}}
> local head = pandoc.TableHead()
> local cell1contents = { pandoc.Plain({pandoc.Str("cell1")}) }
> local cell2contents = { pandoc.Plain({pandoc.Str("cell2")}) }
> local cell1 = { alignment=pandoc.AlignDefault, contents=cell1contents, 
> col_span=1, row_span=1 }
> local cell2 = { alignment=pandoc.AlignDefault, contents=cell2contents, 
> col_span=1, row_span=1 }
> local row1 = { cells={pandoc.Cell(cell1), pandoc.Cell(cell2)} }
> local rows = { pandoc.Row(row1) }
> local bodies = { body=rows, head={}, row_head_columns=0 }
> local foot = pandoc.TableFoot()
> local mytable = pandoc.Table(caption, colspecs, head, bodies, foot)
> table.insert(doc.blocks, mytable)
> ```
>

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