Matt (Dawson),  it would be very helpful if you could comment on the gh
issue giving a specific example of a html table that isn't read properly,
together with expected and actual output.

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Matt Dawson <matt.dawson84-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:

> 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>
>> 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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