John MacFarlane
John MacFarlane
The story begins 15 years ago, with this commit: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/commit/eb2e560d861387414fe03056189f32e54e83851b That was meant to deal with cases like the following: ``` - a - c ``` That is still a...
See also #7778 for another related case.
Also, we should have some mechanism for determining when a table is "simple" and should have no embedded width information. I'm not quite sure how to do that in a...
1. I don't think the vertical lines should be included by default, and I won't change pandoc to do that. Maybe eventually some syntax should be added to indicate "vertical...
There is currently no way to add vertical lines, other than postprocessing pandoc's latex output. Use perl or a similar tool to change ``` \begin{longtable}[c]{@{}lr@{}} ``` for example to ```...
+++ Tim Lin [Mar 25 14 12:16 ]: > [1]@jgm John, what are your thoughts on using custom LaTeX commands (or > environments), defined in the template, that map semantically...
@project-repo we try not to depend on unusual packages, and to generate some fairly standard LaTeX, so that's a strike against this proposal.
The manual has a list of the packages we currently depend on.
Unfortunately it's not just a matter of modifying the tex writer. The underlying data structure representing documents would need to be changed too (pandoc-types). And changes there would require changes...