Re: Align tables to left, as opposed to centered, using markdown to pdf via xelatex

["Eugéne Roux" <eugene.roux-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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Is there any docs on how to go about doing this?

Most of the time I'm very happy with the center-aligned tables, but when 
one needs left-aligned tables, one REALLY needs them.

On Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:28:28 UTC+2, Mark Szepieniec wrote:
>
> I don't think there's a straightforward way to do that.
>
> You _could_ write a filter which catches tables, and uses a slightly 
> modified version of pandoc's latex table writer function to make it output 
> \begin{longtable}[l].....
>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Larry Hynes <la...-kWvUfStYLBx0ubjbjo6WXg@public.gmane.org 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Currently the only way that I've found to do this is to first
>> get Pandoc to output .tex from the markdown source, then change
>> the [c] in
>>
>>     \begin{longtable}[c]{@{}llr@{}}
>>
>> to an [l], copy and paste that table into the original markdown
>> document and then convert to .pdf using the -R flag.
>>
>> I've tried everything I can think of in my xelatex template to
>> get the table to align left but Pandoc seems to override all and
>> stick doggedly to [c].
>>
>> Can anyone offer any suggestions please, as to how I might be
>> able to convert directly from markdown to pdf, via xelatex, and
>> have tables align to the left?
>>
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