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

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

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.
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> 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].....
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> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Larry Hynes <larry-kWvUfStYLBx0ubjbjo6WXg@public.gmane.org> wrote:
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>> 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@{}}
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>> 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?