Retain the table style when doing markdown to markdown conversion

Retain the table style when doing markdown to markdown conversion

[Kaushal Modi]

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Hello,

Is it possible to retain the table style when doing "-f markdown -t 
markdown"?

This is related to my previous post. I am exporting from Org format using 
an Org exporter to Hugo/Blackfriday flavor compatible Markdown.

That generates a table like this:

| Header 1 | Header 2 | Header 3 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| a        | b        | c        |
| d        | e        | f        |

I then use Pandoc only to parse the citations in that file (which now works 
thanks to "-t markdown-citation").

The issue is that while most conversions are fine going from markdown to 
markdown, the table format gets changed.

Pandoc converts the above table to:

  Header 1   Header 2   Header 3
  ---------- ---------- ----------
  a          b          c
  d          e          f

That table format does not work with Hugo/Blackfriday.

Seeing that Pandoc does a successful conversion, it means that the table 
format in the input is at least recognizable by Pandoc. So can you please 
give me a suggestion on how to let the table elements be as-is in the input 
markdown?

Many thanks!

Once this is resolved I would have successfully got an Org document with 
Pandoc citations convert successfully to a Hugo post :)

Ref: 
https://github.com/kaushalmodi/ox-hugo/issues/175#issuecomment-405987796

Kaushal

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Re: Retain the table style when doing markdown to markdown conversion

[Daniel Staal]

On 7/19/18 1:08 PM, Kaushal Modi wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to retain the table style when doing "-f markdown -t 
> markdown"?

'Retain' - no.  'Specify' - yes.  I'm not sure what the heuristics are 
for which table format gets used in which case, but what you need to do 
is *disable* the table styles you don't want used.

I use this line to get pipe tables:

pandoc -f markdown -t 
markdown-simple_tables+pipe_tables-multiline_tables-grid_tables-raw_html

Daniel T. Staal

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Re: Retain the table style when doing markdown to markdown conversion

[Kaushal Modi]

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Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the response!

Looks like "markdown-simple_tables+pipe_tables" works great for my use case.

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 2:01 PM Daniel Staal <DStaal-Jdbf3xiKgS8@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On 7/19/18 1:08 PM, Kaushal Modi wrote:
> >
> > Is it possible to retain the table style when doing "-f markdown -t
> > markdown"?
>
> 'Retain' - no.  'Specify' - yes.  I'm not sure what the heuristics are
> for which table format gets used in which case, but what you need to do
> is *disable* the table styles you don't want used.
>
> I use this line to get pipe tables:
>
> pandoc -f markdown -t
> markdown-simple_tables+pipe_tables-multiline_tables-grid_tables-raw_html
>
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Retain the table style when doing markdown to markdown conversion

[Kolen Cheung]

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There's numerous posts/issues/pages on pandoc-discuss, GitHub issue tracker, and GitHub wiki on this topic. You could try pandoc-trick on the github wiki first.