Hi John,

Thanks for the response!  Would a PR against the docs making a small note 
explaining this be welcome?

-Stephen


On Saturday, August 19, 2017 at 7:05:35 PM UTC-7, John MacFarlane wrote:
>
> Currently there's no support for rowspans (i.e., variable 
> number of columns per row). 
>
> +++ sjm...-HmMyXyqgL2CVc3sceRu5cw@public.gmane.org <javascript:> [Aug 19 17 18:25 ]: 
> >   Hello! 
> >   I searched and searched but perhaps was using the wrong terms.  I 
> >   played around a lot with using rules, whether or not "single column 
> >   rows" have three or two + characters (both above and below, depending 
> >   on what is below it), but I'm not sure I'm getting the grid table 
> >   syntax right for pandoc.  Or perhaps this is not supported? 
> >   I would like to be able to layout a grid table with variable number of 
> >   columns per row.  The following is what I am working with: 
> >   test.md contents: 
> >   The Grid Table 
> >   
> ======================================================================= 
> >   ================= 
> >   This table works in reStructuredText (tested with Sphinx).  Is there a 
> >   way to support 
> >   this in `pandoc`? 
> >   
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------- 
> >   ----------------+ 
> >   |                  Raw Camera Data Range: 20 --- 120cm (8in --- 4ft) 
> >                   | 
> >   
> +===========================================+========================== 
> >   ================+ 
> >   |                                   Face recognition 
> >                   | 
> >   
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------- 
> >   ----------------+ 
> >   | Detection                                 | 25 --- 75 cm 
> >                   | 
> >   
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------- 
> >   ----------------+ 
> >   | Landmark                                  | 30 --- 100 cm 
> >                  | 
> >   
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------- 
> >   ----------------+ 
> >   | Recognition                               | 30 --- 80 cm 
> >                   | 
> >   
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------- 
> >   ----------------+ 
> >   | Expression                                | 30 --- 100 cm 
> >                  | 
> >   
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------- 
> >   ----------------+ 
> >   | Pulse                                     | 30 --- 60 cm 
> >                   | 
> >   
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------- 
> >   ----------------+ 
> >   | Pose                                      | 30 --- 100 cm 
> >                  | 
> >   
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------- 
> >   ----------------+ 
> >   |                                   Hand Recognition 
> >                   | 
> >   
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------- 
> >   ----------------+ 
> >   | Blob Segmentation                         | 20 --- 85 cm 
> >                   | 
> >   
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------- 
> >   ----------------+ 
> >   | Hand Segmentation                         | 20 --- 80 cm 
> >                   | 
> >   
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------- 
> >   ----------------+ 
> >   | Tracking                                  | 20 --- 60 cm 
> >                   | 
> >   
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------- 
> >   ----------------+ 
> >   | Gesture                                   | 20 --- 60 cm 
> >                   | 
> >   
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------- 
> >   ----------------+ 
> >   Option 2 
> >   
> ======================================================================= 
> >   ================= 
> >   With rules for `pandoc`, to avoid centered rows being turned into 
> >   verbatim (which makes 
> >   sense): 
> >   
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------- 
> >   ----------------+ 
> >   | Raw Camera Data Range: 20 --- 120cm (8in --- 4ft) 
> >                  | 
> >   
> +:=========================================:+:========================= 
> >   ===============:+ 
> >   | Face recognition 
> >                   | 
> >   
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------- 
> >   ----------------+ 
> >   | Detection                                 | 25 --- 75 cm 
> >                   | 
> >   
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------- 
> >   ----------------+ 
> >   | Landmark                                  | 30 --- 100 cm 
> >                  | 
> >   
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------- 
> >   ----------------+ 
> >   | Recognition                               | 30 --- 80 cm 
> >                   | 
> >   
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------- 
> >   ----------------+ 
> >   | Expression                                | 30 --- 100 cm 
> >                  | 
> >   
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------- 
> >   ----------------+ 
> >   | Pulse                                     | 30 --- 60 cm 
> >                   | 
> >   
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------- 
> >   ----------------+ 
> >   | Pose                                      | 30 --- 100 cm 
> >                  | 
> >   
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------- 
> >   ----------------+ 
> >   | Hand recognition 
> >                   | 
> >   
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------- 
> >   ----------------+ 
> >   | Blob Segmentation                         | 20 --- 85 cm 
> >                   | 
> >   
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------- 
> >   ----------------+ 
> >   | Hand Segmentation                         | 20 --- 80 cm 
> >                   | 
> >   
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------- 
> >   ----------------+ 
> >   | Tracking                                  | 20 --- 60 cm 
> >                   | 
> >   
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------- 
> >   ----------------+ 
> >   | Gesture                                   | 20 --- 60 cm 
> >                   | 
> >   
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------- 
> >   ----------------+ 
> >   to generate (grid_table.sh as executable file in same directory as 
> >   test.md): 
> >   #!/usr/bin/env bash 
> >   markdown_configs="-f 
> >   
> markdown+grid_tables+pipe_tables+simple_tables+multiline_tables+tex_mat 
> >   h_dollars --column=88" 
> >   doctype="-t latex --latex-engine=xelatex" 
> >   inputs="test.md" 
> >   pandoc $markdown_configs $doctype $inputs -o test.pdf 
> >   rendered output 
> >   see attached test.pdf 
> >   Note: same results regardless of latex engine, but included because 
> the 
> >   actual thing I am working with must be xelatex. 
> >   Thanks for explaining what should change or if this cannot be 
> >   supported.  Extra thanks, if unsupported, for a (brief!) explanation 
> of 
> >   why -- I'm genuinely interested ;) 
> >   -Stephen 
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