format code in cells of a table

format code in cells of a table

[Joe Cordingley]

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I was trying to see if I could put code blocks in a table, so I could 
compare code blocks side by side. For example this:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
scala                                          haskell
---------------------------------------------- 
------------------------------------
`sealed trait Player` \                        `data Player` \
`case object PlayerOne extends Player` \       `  = Player One` \
`case object PlayerTwo extends Player` \       `  | Player Two` \
                                              
`def nextPlayer: Player => Player = {` \       `nextPlayer :: Player -> 
Player` \
`  case PlayerOne => PlayerTwo` \              `nextPlayer PlayerOne = 
PlayerTwo` \
`  case PlayerTwo => PlayerOne` \              `nextPlayer PlayerTwo = 
PlayerOne` \
`}` \

`implicit val showPlayer: Show[Player] = {` \  `instance Show Player where` 
\
`  case PlayerOne => "Player One"` \           `  show PlayerOne = "Player 
One"` \
`  case PlayerTwo => "Player One"` \           `  show PlayerTwo = "Player 
Two"` \
`}` \
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

And it very nearly works, however if you zoom the screen out you can see 
that rather than enforcing the newlines it only does so if they don't 
completely fit on the previous line.

Is there a better way of doing this?

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Re: format code in cells of a table

[Gwern Branwen]

Wouldn't it make more sense to avoid the simple or pipe table formats,
and use the grid table format which is the only one which really
supports block elements such as code blocks (as opposed to just inline
code tags): https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#extension-grid_tables ?

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Re: format code in cells of a table

[John Gabriele]

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In the distant past I've done this with (using your titles) :

~~~
Hi.

<table width="100%">
<tr><th>Scala</th><th>Haskell</th></tr>
<tr>
<td width="50%">

~~~scala
scala code here
~~~

</td>
<td width="50%">

~~~haskell
haskell code here
~~~

</td>
</tr>
</table>

... and so on for next pair of side-by-side code blocks.
~~~

Then at some point after that I wrote a short script to turn:

~~~
Hi.

---Scala---
scala code here
---Haskell---
haskell code here
---

... and so on for next pair of side-by-side code blocks.
~~~

Into that same table above.

To do that again these days, I'd probably change my script to output divs & spans to do the same thing using css and maybe flexbox or something.

-- John




On Fri, Nov 27, 2020, at 5:15 AM, Joe Cordingley wrote:
> 
> I was trying to see if I could put code blocks in a table, so I could compare code blocks side by side. For example this:
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> scala                                          haskell
> ---------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------
> `sealed trait Player` \                        `data Player` \
> `case object PlayerOne extends Player` \       `  = Player One` \
> `case object PlayerTwo extends Player` \       `  | Player Two` \
>                                               
> `def nextPlayer: Player => Player = {` \       `nextPlayer :: Player -> Player` \
> `  case PlayerOne => PlayerTwo` \              `nextPlayer PlayerOne = PlayerTwo` \
> `  case PlayerTwo => PlayerOne` \              `nextPlayer PlayerTwo = PlayerOne` \
> `}` \
> 
> `implicit val showPlayer: Show[Player] = {` \  `instance Show Player where` \
> `  case PlayerOne => "Player One"` \           `  show PlayerOne = "Player One"` \
> `  case PlayerTwo => "Player One"` \           `  show PlayerTwo = "Player Two"` \
> `}` \
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> And it very nearly works, however if you zoom the screen out you can see that rather than enforcing the newlines it only does so if they don't completely fit on the previous line.
> 
> Is there a better way of doing this?
> 

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