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

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

[Larry Hynes]

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?

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

[Mark Szepieniec]

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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 <larry-kWvUfStYLBx0ubjbjo6WXg@public.gmane.org> 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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Re: Align tables to left, as opposed to centered, using markdown to pdf via xelatex

[Larry Hynes]

Thanks Mark - you got me thinking!

Instead of a filter I can use:
    
    pandoc -f markdown -t latex f.md | sed 's/\[c\]/\[l\]/g' | ...

So, a filter of sorts. :)

It's crude, but working. Maybe a bit of tightening up on the regex and I
would be quite happy to use this when necessary.

On 2015-01-08, Mark Szepieniec <mszepien-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
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>
> 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 <larry-kWvUfStYLBx0ubjbjo6WXg@public.gmane.org> 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?

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

[Eugéne Roux]

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

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

[Larry Hynes]

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

[Gang Liang]

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The mechanism of the pandocfilters is to work on the intermediate pandoc 
AST json file. By then, the longtable environment is not generated yet. I 
feel we have to use your sed hack if not wanting to write code to convert 
the parsed AST tree to longtable by ourselves, :).

On Saturday, January 17, 2015 at 8:14:52 AM UTC-8, Larry Hynes wrote:
>
> On 2015-01-17, Eugéne Roux <eugen...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org <javascript:>> 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. ;) 
>
>

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