It works, thanks for the help!

On Saturday, 1 July 2023 at 16:48:51 UTC+8 mf wrote:

> Il 01/07/23 10:09, Sylvain Hubert ha scritto:
> > ok just reverse-engineered it 
> > folloing 
> https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/8932#issuecomment-1614842929 :
> > 
> > function CodeBlock(elem)
> > return pandoc.Table(
> >       {},
> >       {"AlignDefault"},
> >       {},
> >       {{}},
> >       {{{elem}}}
> >     )
> > end
> > 
>
> This is the old version of tables, that now is called `SimpleTable`, see 
> https://pandoc.org/lua-filters.html#type-simpletable
>
> You can use the same syntax with current pandoc this way:
>
> ```lua
> t = pandoc.SimpleTable( {}, { "AlignDefault" }, {}, { {} }, { { { elem } 
> } } )
> ```
>
> and then convert it to a Table with:
>
> ```lua
> t2 = pandoc.utils.from_simple_table(t)
> ```
>
> By the way, I noticed that there's no `pandoc.TableBody` constructor.
>
> The only way I found is through a lua table like this:
>
> ```lua
> body = {
> attr = pandoc.Attr(),
> head = {},
> row_head_columns = 0,
> body = { pandoc.Row( { pandoc.Cell( { elem } ) } ) }
> }
> ```
>
> So a minimal table is made like this:
>
> ```lua
> t = pandoc.Table(
> {}, -- empty caption
> { { 'AlignDefault', 0 } }, -- one column, default alignment and width
> pandoc.TableHead(), -- empty table head
> { body }, -- a list of one body
> pandoc.TableFoot() -- empty table foot
> )
> ```
>
>
> > On Saturday, 1 July 2023 at 15:58:34 UTC+8 Sylvain Hubert wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm trying to create bounding boxes for code blocks by wrapping them
> > inside tables.
> > According to the manual, I should probably use some filter like:
> > 
> >     function CodeBlock(elem)
> >         return pandoc.Table(--[[... elem ...]])
> >     end
> > 
> > but pandoc.Table takes a giant syntax tree with levels of all sorts
> > of nodes.
> > Neither the manual nor the error message gives a useful guide of
> > actually creating a table.
> > 
> > Could anyone provide a minimal example of creating a pandoc.Table in
> > a lua filter?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
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