Re: Textile document looks bad in RedMine, Pandoc 3.1.3 for Win

[Daniel Staal <DStaal-Jdbf3xiKgS8@public.gmane.org>]

On 6/9/23 5:33 PM, John MacFarlane wrote:
> It depends what you mean by "just fine."  Embedded HTML is perfectly fine in Textile, and in this case it is needed in order to preserve the semantic information about column widths.  (Btw, can't see these links - it says the file is in owner's trash.)

As someone else who occasinally gets bit by this: I think the main issue 
really is that the Markdown reader often seems to assume column widths 
that I didn't actually mean.  Especially if I do something like 
hand-write a table, use Pandoc to format it, and then edit it, if I then 
format it to Textile I'll be surprised that there's widths assigned. 
Pipe tables are particularly prone to it, as the 'nice' way to write 
them is to have the header seperator line match the widths of the 
headers (or the width of the longest element in the column) - but that 
implies widths, when really all I'm normally looking for is the column 
boundries to match up in my text.

And if it's then going into Redmine (which is my common usecase for this 
conversion as well), then converting to embedded HTML makes it look ugly 
and be hard to edit further in the wiki.

Not sure what the correct response is, really.  Since the real issue is 
that I'm effectively trying to use a subset of the full syntax.

Daniel T. Staal

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