Re: how to use a tabular in my markdown (any special considerations?)

[John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

You can debug some problems like this by using
pandoc -t latex

For example

pandoc -t latex
^\<Up/Down/Left/Right\>

yields

\^{}\textless Up/Down/Left/Right\textgreater{}

which tells you that ^ and < and > need to
be treated specially in LaTeX.



"John Gabriele" <jgabriele-97jfqw80gc6171pxa8y+qA@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to put a tabular element in my markdown file. My LaTeX is a little rusty, but here's what I have
>
> ~~~
> hi
>
> \begin{tabular}{l l}
> ^<Up/Down/Left/Right> &  move by word/para \\
> <PgUp/PgDn/Home/End>  &  what you expect \\
> [a/e                  &  beginning/end of doc \\
> ^]                    &  go to matching bracket \\
> ^j                    &  jump to line number \\
> \end{tabular}
>
> bye
> ~~~
>
> This fails with:
>
> ~~~
> Error producing PDF.
> ! Missing $ inserted.
> <inserted text> 
>                 $
> l.70 ^
> ~~~
>
> I thought maybe it was those carets (^), so I backslash-escaped them, but then still got this error:
>
> ~~~
> Error producing PDF.
> ! Missing number, treated as zero.
> <to be read again> 
>                    a
> l.73 \^]
> ~~~
>
> What special text rules must I follow in the content of my tabular fields?
>
> ***
>
> Background: BTW, the reason I want to do this is because I'm writing a twocolumn landscape pdf, and it turns out that tables don't work in 2-column (see https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/1023 ). I thought maybe it would work because my output pdf is landscape rather than portrait:
>
>     pandoc -t pdf -o foo.pdf -V geometry="margin=0.8in,landscape,twocolumn" -V fontsize=12pt foo.txt
>
> but alas that is not the case. So, I figured I'd get my tables by writing raw latex tabular blocks.
>
> Thanks,
> -- John
>
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