PDF table rows scrunched together

[candlerb]

When outputting a table where the rows wrap onto multiple lines, I find that the spacing between adjacent table rows is much smaller than the spacing between the text lines within one row, which gives very confusing layout.

This is using pandoc 1.8.1.1 (from cabal-install), Ubuntu 11.04, and the version of texlive it bundles (2009-11)

Example markdown source:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Multiplier  Priority  Description  Notes
            Value
----------  -------   -----------  -------------------------------------------
0           0         Core Node    The core switches/routers will not be
                                   participating in STP... reserved in
                                   case they ever are

1           4096      Redundant    Ditto
                      Core Nodes

2           8192      Reserved

3           12288     **Building
                      Backbone**

4           16384     **Redundant
                      Building
                      Backbones**

5           20480     Secondary    This is for building complexes, where
                      Backbone     there are separate building (secondary)
                                   backbones that terminate at the complex
                                   backbone.

6           24576     **Access     This is the normal edge-device priority
                      Switches**

7           28672     Access       Used for access switches that are
                      Switches     daisy-changed from another access switch.
                                   We're using this terminology instead of
                                   "aggregation switch" because it's hard to
                                   define when a switch stops being an
                                   access switch and becomes an
                                   aggregation switch.

8           32768     Default      No managed network devices should have
                                   this priority.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Table: Priority Table

For rendered output see http://psg.com/~brian/pandoc-table-sample.pdf

[jgm]

I think the solution is for pandoc to use the ctable package for tables, instead of the built-in tabular environment. Looking into it.