Re: Align tables to left, as opposed to centered, using markdown to pdf via xelatex

[Larry Hynes <larry-kWvUfStYLBx0ubjbjo6WXg@public.gmane.org>]

On 2015-01-17, Eugéne Roux <eugene.roux-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Is there any docs on how to go about doing this?

I think https://github.com/jgm/pandocfilters is a good starting
point, if you don't want to use my sed hack. ;)

> Most of the time I'm very happy with the center-aligned tables, but when 
> one needs left-aligned tables, one REALLY needs them.
>
> On Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:28:28 UTC+2, Mark Szepieniec wrote:
>>
>> I don't think there's a straightforward way to do that.
>>
>> You _could_ write a filter which catches tables, and uses a slightly 
>> modified version of pandoc's latex table writer function to make it output 
>> \begin{longtable}[l].....
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Larry Hynes <la...-kWvUfStYLBx0ubjbjo6WXg@public.gmane.org 
>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>>> Currently the only way that I've found to do this is to first
>>> get Pandoc to output .tex from the markdown source, then change
>>> the [c] in
>>>
>>>     \begin{longtable}[c]{@{}llr@{}}
>>>
>>> to an [l], copy and paste that table into the original markdown
>>> document and then convert to .pdf using the -R flag.
>>>
>>> I've tried everything I can think of in my xelatex template to
>>> get the table to align left but Pandoc seems to override all and
>>> stick doggedly to [c].
>>>
>>> Can anyone offer any suggestions please, as to how I might be
>>> able to convert directly from markdown to pdf, via xelatex, and
>>> have tables align to the left?
>>>
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