Re: Table cell horizontal alignment (docx)

[Matt Dawson <matt.dawson84-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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Thanks Matthew.

@Mark Szepieniec mentioned using a filter as a work-arround. I have just 
read up on them in the documentation but it seems a little out of my 
skill-set! I guess i'll just have to see the outcome of the issue you have 
raised.

thanks again.

Matt


On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 12:46:00 PM UTC, Matthew Pickering wrote:
>
> I opened an issue here. https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/1881 
>
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Matt Dawson <matt.d...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > I have just ran a test using markdown as the input that includes a table 
> > with alignment: 
> > 
> > # Tables 
> > ## multi-line table example 
> > 
> > ------------------------------------------------------------- 
> >  Centered   Default           Right Left 
> >   Header    Aligned         Aligned Aligned 
> > ----------- ------- --------------- ------------------------- 
> >    First    row                12.0 Example of a row that 
> >                                     spans multiple lines. 
> > 
> >   Second    row                 5.0 Here's another one. Note 
> >                                     the blank line between 
> >                                     rows. 
> > ------------------------------------------------------------- 
> > 
> > 
> > Pandoc successfully writes a docx output file that contains the table 
> > alignment. So this confirms your suspicions Mark that the issue lies 
> with 
> > the html reader. 
> > 
> > Can i report this as a bug? How am i best to do about that? 
> > 
> > Matt 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 2:29:04 PM UTC, Matt Dawson wrote: 
> >> 
> >> Thanks for your input Mark. 
> >> 
> >> I have read up on the table alignment for markdown. This reminded me 
> that 
> >> i wasn't including a <thead> in my html table in the input file. I have 
> >> added that and set the alignment for each column on the <th> but the 
> >> alignment still isn't brought through to the output docx :-(. The full 
> >> extent of my workflow involves: 
> >> 
> >> an editing team writing articles in Wordpress which i then export to a 
> >> single xml. 
> >> Run a python script on the xml to convert to multiple html files 
> >> Run pandoc on the html files to convert to docx and multiple other 
> >> formats. 
> >> 
> >> I can't ask the writing team to write in markdown and many of the 
> articles 
> >> include tables. I need to be able to allow the writers to set the table 
> >> alignment themselves using tools they are familiar with. 
> >> 
> >> The only thing i can think of at the moment is look for a script to 
> >> convert my wordpress xml to markdown, however the first one i tried 
> didn't 
> >> support markdown tables. 
> >> 
> >> Matt 
> > 
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