Am Freitag, 20. Mai 2016 11:39:02 UTC+2 schrieb Martin Fenner:

Dear group,

The topic of CSV support in Pandoc has come up several times on this list, includes this thread from 2014:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pandoc-discuss/kBdJU_JktzI

Since last year I work for an organisation that frequently deals with tabular data (and helped organize CSVconf earlier this month), and I have done some thinking on how CSV could fit into Pandoc.

Are you aware of these two Pandoc filters?

pandoc-csv2table (https://github.com/baig/pandoc-csv2table)
pandoc-placetable (https://github.com/mb21/pandoc-placetable)

Both “abuse” the fenced code block syntax, assign the class .table to the block and allow inline CSV data as well as referencing an external CSV file.

Personally, I still prefer to use csv2table (over the newer placetable) because I can also use it to convert CSV to Markdown tables (grid, simple and multiline) — which *placetable” currently doesn’t do because it works differently (AFAIU):

placetable converts CSV to Pandoc’s native format directly
csv2table converts CSV to Markdown first.