Re: Feature Idea: docx -> HTML table styling

[William Lupton <wlupton-QSt+ys/nuMyEUIsrzH9SikB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>]

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Are you aware of this list-table filter (it supports rowspan and colspan)?
https://github.com/pandoc/lua-filters/tree/master/list-table

I've fixed a probable align/widths bug for which I haven't yet submitted as
a pull request (sorry...). Also, I'm not sure that its pandoc version logic
is quite right. It's been working fine for me with pandoc 2.16.1.

On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 at 17:49, ivo....-xwz7R8GQi1g@public.gmane.org <ivo.welch-xwz7R8GQi1g@public.gmane.org> wrote:

>
> my use case is to use pandoc md as a quasi-universal way to write text
> that I can output to pdf, html, and pptx.  unfortunately, I am limited by
> the lack of multi-column cells :-(.
>
>
>
> On Friday, June 17, 2022 at 10:36:15 AM UTC-7 John MacFarlane wrote:
>
>> Daniel Staal <DSt...-Jdbf3xiKgS8@public.gmane.org> writes:
>>
>> > On 6/16/22 1:21 PM, John MacFarlane wrote:
>> >> I don't know what the best solution is. Pandoc is really
>> >> designed to preserve the features of documents that are encoded
>> >> in its types. Anything else -- including the use of
>> >> "stringly typed" attributes -- is a bit of a hack, and tends to
>> >> lead to unmaintainable messes down the road.
>> >>
>> >> We could try to establish some generic conventions for
>> >> representing things like vertical-alignment in the attributes,
>> >> e.g. with a "vertical-align" attribute that gets interpreted
>> >> by different writers, but as I said, once we depart from the
>> >> structured types things get to be a bit of a mess.
>> >
>> > A thought: One option would be to suggest some generic conventions for
>> > readers, but maintain that *writers* will ignore anything not in the
>> > official AST. This would allow people like the original poster to
>> > handle many issues with custom LUA filters/writers, and if any
>> > particular attribute becomes widespread in readers you can decide if
>> you
>> > want to adopt it into the official AST and add it to writers.
>>
>> That's more or less what I was thinking.
>>
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