Re: tables in two-column latex output

[Chris <cglucas-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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Mark: thanks for pointing that out. If I find myself with some spare time I 
might give it a shot, but for the moment I think that would be a lot of 
work for a fairly brittle and special-case solution.

John: thanks for weighing in. I think a command-line option would be great. 
Obviously it'd be ideal if everything just worked with any environment, but 
that'd be asking a lot of tex (and you!)

On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 4:09:38 PM UTC, John MacFarlane wrote:
>
> This is a common request.  I'm really unhappy with the current 
> situation.  longtable is needed to prevent breakage for longer 
> tables, but it doesn't work with two-column and has some other 
> quirks.  Perhaps we could offer a command-line option to use 
> table instead of longtable. 
>
> +++ Chris [Jan 25 15 07:52 ]: 
> >I've recently been experimenting with drafting conference papers using 
> >markdown and converting them to latex with pandoc. For this to me 
> >worthwhile -- for me -- it's important that I can produce an almost-final 
> >version using only a conference-specific template file. Ideally, I'd like 
> >to be able to use "./confHelper.sh myMarkdown.txt myConferencePaper.pdf" 
> to 
> >get a submission-ready result. 
> > 
> >There are a few issues I can live with, namely lack of an obvious 
> markdown 
> >replacement for the different flavors of \cite{} (e.g., \citeA, \citeNP) 
> as 
> >well as the need to update table and figure number references by hand, 
> but 
> >there is one blocker: 
> > 
> >My papers tend to include tables, and conferences often use a two-column 
> >environment. I've tried a couple of workarounds, like using 
> >"\renewenvironment" in my template file to replace longtables with 
> >tables-in-tabulars, but that breaks my captions. Can anyone recommend a 
> >good solution? 
> > 
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