ivo welch <ivowel@gmail.com> writes:

> my main problem is the lack of column spanning support in md tables. 
>  Alas, until there is a definitive solution, are there crutch solutions? 
> In particular, I wonder how one can author raw html tables (and/or raw tex)
> tables into the markdown text and just do it twice, once in each native
> format.

Yes, you can do this. Use the raw attribute:

```{=latex}
\begin{table}
...here's your tex table.
...it won't appear in HTML output
\end{table}
```

```{=html}
<table>
...here's your HTML table.
...it won't appear in LaTeX output
```

> or can pandoc take an html table with column spans, properly
> designated in the markdown, and convert it to a tex table with column spans
> (i.e., not authoring the table as a markdown table).

Sorry, the answer to this is no, currently.

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