--list-tables for RST?

--list-tables for RST?

[Carsten Fuchs]

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Dear Pandoc group,

https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/4564 links to a PR that adds the 
--list-tables feature, but it doesn't seem to be merged into the latest 
release yet?

The problem is that Pandoc writes RST files like this:

=============================
================================================================================================================================================
Keyboard Input                Action
=============================
================================================================================================================================================
Arrow keys ``←↑↓→``           Scroll the map into the direction of the arrow
.
``Z``                         Toggle the pan feature: Pressing ``Z`` once is 
like holding down ``RMB`` or ``Space`` all the time. Pressing ``Z`` anew 
turns panning off again.
=============================
================================================================================================================================================

rather than the expected and correct

============================= 
================================================================================================================================================
Keyboard Input                Action
============================= 
================================================================================================================================================
Arrow keys ``←↑↓→``           Scroll the map into the direction of the arrow
.
``Z``                         Toggle the pan feature: Pressing ``Z`` once is 
like holding down ``RMB`` or ``Space`` all the time. Pressing ``Z`` anew 
turns panning off again.
============================= 
================================================================================================================================================


That is, the separator lines get wrapped at the --columns width, whereas 
the cell contents (correctly) does not. This can be worked-around by 
setting e.g. --columns=174 or --wrap=none, but then the rest of the 
document is affected as well.

Are there any other options for addressing this problem?

Best regards,
Carsten

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Re: --list-tables for RST?

[John MacFarlane]

I believe the bug with table header wrapping has been
fixed already (see #5128 -- though this is not in a
released version -- you can compile from source or
grab a nightly).

The main question with the list tables PR is whether
to put it on an extension, and how to handle that exactly.

Carsten Fuchs <carsten.fuchs@cafu.de> writes:

> Dear Pandoc group,
>
> https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/4564 links to a PR that adds the 
> --list-tables feature, but it doesn't seem to be merged into the latest 
> release yet?
>
> The problem is that Pandoc writes RST files like this:
>
> =============================
> ================================================================================================================================================
> Keyboard Input                Action
> =============================
> ================================================================================================================================================
> Arrow keys ``←↑↓→``           Scroll the map into the direction of the arrow
> .
> ``Z``                         Toggle the pan feature: Pressing ``Z`` once is 
> like holding down ``RMB`` or ``Space`` all the time. Pressing ``Z`` anew 
> turns panning off again.
> =============================
> ================================================================================================================================================
>
> rather than the expected and correct
>
> ============================= 
> ================================================================================================================================================
> Keyboard Input                Action
> ============================= 
> ================================================================================================================================================
> Arrow keys ``←↑↓→``           Scroll the map into the direction of the arrow
> .
> ``Z``                         Toggle the pan feature: Pressing ``Z`` once is 
> like holding down ``RMB`` or ``Space`` all the time. Pressing ``Z`` anew 
> turns panning off again.
> ============================= 
> ================================================================================================================================================
>
>
> That is, the separator lines get wrapped at the --columns width, whereas 
> the cell contents (correctly) does not. This can be worked-around by 
> setting e.g. --columns=174 or --wrap=none, but then the rest of the 
> document is affected as well.
>
> Are there any other options for addressing this problem?
>
> Best regards,
> Carsten
>
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Re: --list-tables for RST?

[Carsten Fuchs]

Hi John,

Am 2018-12-19 um 17:16 schrieb John MacFarlane:
> 
> I believe the bug with table header wrapping has been
> fixed already (see #5128 -- though this is not in a
> released version -- you can compile from source or
> grab a nightly).

Thank you very much, the nightly works very well!

> The main question with the list tables PR is whether
> to put it on an extension, and how to handle that exactly.

Btw., I just realized that Sphinx cannot deal with one-column tables that are defined with ==== syntax, obviously due to the collision with the definition for headlines:

=======
doesn't
=======
work
=======

I have not yet tried it, but I guess that using the list syntax would help with such tables as well.

Best regards,
Carsten