> Am 23.05.2016 um 23:22 schrieb John MACFARLANE : > > But the Markdown philosophy is not about being "simple but > powerful." It's about having source files that are > human-readable text files. > > Quoting from John Gruber's original Markdown syntax page: > >> The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax >> is to make it as readable as possible. The idea is that a >> Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as >> plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with >> tags or formatting instructions. > > CSV is simple (though not as flexible as HTML formatting). > But it doesn't pass this test. > > This design goal is really important to keep in mind when > comparing Markdown to alternatives, which are often easier > to write (because, for example, sublists are indicated by > `**` instead of indentation), but don't look as natural > to read. John, you are right, and I will rephrase. I think that seemless integration of markdown and CSV would make a lot of sense for many use cases. A Pandoc CSV reader is a good first step. The second step is then combining multiple Pandoc documents into one. This can of course be done already, but maybe extending the ![]() syntax would make it easier to import other documents (e.g. a number of tables in CSV format) into markdown documents instead of appending multiple documents into one. The only requirement would be that the external file referenced in ![]() would be in a format that Pandoc understands, otherwise it is loaded as binary blob, as for images. > Am 26.05.2016 um 08:42 schrieb Sergio Correia : > > 2) For tables, I would also suggest to take a look at this filter: > > http://scorreia.com/software/panflute/guide.html#yaml-code-blocks > > It allows markdown like this: > Some text > > ~~~ csv > title: Some Title > has-header: True > --- > Col1, Col2, Col3 > 1, 2, 3 > 10, 20, 30 > ~~~ > > More text > > This combines pure CSV with options set up in YAML, so you can add captions and customize the table. I like the use of YAML in code blocks, as you frequently need additional metadata to properly understand tabular data (see for example http://data.okfn.org/doc/tabular-data-package ). Very cool. Best, Martin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To post to this group, send email to pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/B4779237-F368-454A-8E43-93EBCDFDF8AB%40datacite.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.