Re: What is recommended way to generate three-line table?

[jiewuza <jiewuza-9Onoh4P/yGk@public.gmane.org>]

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

> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017, at 12:15 PM, Daniel Staal wrote:
>> On 6/22/17 3:15 AM, jiewuza wrote:
>> > John Gabriele<jgabriele-97jfqw80gc6171pxa8y+qA@public.gmane.org>
>> > writes:
>> > 
>> >> Not sure exactly what you mean by "three-line table". A table with only
>> >> three rows?
>> >> Regardless, Pandoc supports a few different syntaxes for writing tables;
>> >> see<http://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#tables>.
>> >>
>> > Thanks for your link.
>> > By three-line table, I mean the table shows only three border-lines: one
>> > on the top, one on the bottom, and one between the header and the body,
>> > looks like:
>> > 
>> > --------------------------
>> > table header
>> > --------------------------
>> > table body
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > --------------------------
>> > 
>> > This is quite common in science papers.
>> >
>> 
>> You're looking for `multiline_tables`  The line between the header and 
>> the body will be broken up a little bit.  (To delineate where the 
>> columns are.)
>> 
>> The manual (already linked to) will tell you how to designate using them 
>> for output, if you need to.
>> 
>> Daniel T. Staal
>
> Oh, jiewuza may be looking for a way to have the *output html* have no
> horizontal lines in between rows.
>
> jiewuza, if that's the case, you might specify whether your output is
> html or pdf. I don't know how to get either output format to do that.

Yes, that is what I want. Only three horizontal lines (on the top,
bottom and between header and body), no other lines in between rows.

I really hope there is a way for both html and pdf output.