Suggestion: option to use table floats or longtable in LaTeX output

Suggestion: option to use table floats or longtable in LaTeX output

[pandoc-discuss]

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Table floats with tabular material vs longtable has been discussed before 
and there doesn't seem to be a solution that satisfies all users. Would it 
be possible to make different table styles configurable with pandoc? An 
option like:

tables=longtable|table

would be much appreciated.

If possible, I'd also like to propose a third option, maybe called 
"plaintable" or "plaintabular" or something, that also disables pandoc's 
control of table widths with minipages. Some users (like me) would like 
plain tables and solve too wide tables in other ways (like redefining the 
table environment to set a different font size).

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Re: Suggestion: option to use table floats or longtable in LaTeX output

[jcr]

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I would welcome an option to avoid longtable. I'm working on a book that 
will include some tables and I need them to be floats. If I don't have an 
easier solution, I may try to use a script to convert the tables to raw 
LaTeX and then modify the string with regular expressions to turn it into 
some variant of tabular.

On Tuesday, September 19, 2023 at 3:29:14 AM UTC-4 pandoc-discuss wrote:

> Table floats with tabular material vs longtable has been discussed before 
> and there doesn't seem to be a solution that satisfies all users. Would it 
> be possible to make different table styles configurable with pandoc? An 
> option like:
>
> tables=longtable|table
>
> would be much appreciated.
>
> If possible, I'd also like to propose a third option, maybe called 
> "plaintable" or "plaintabular" or something, that also disables pandoc's 
> control of table widths with minipages. Some users (like me) would like 
> plain tables and solve too wide tables in other ways (like redefining the 
> table environment to set a different font size).
>

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