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 <larry-kWvUfStYLBx0ubjbjo6WXg@public.gmane.org> 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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