Pandoc Does Not Parse Tabular With Itemize

[schrieveslaach]

The current pandoc dev version does not parse tabular environments if they contains an itemize environment. For example:

\begin{tabular}{cc}
    A & B \\
    C & D \begin{itemize}
    \item 1                                     
    \item 2 
    \item 3
    \item 4 
    \item 5 
  \end{itemize}
\end{tabular}

Pandoc produces following output:

[warning] Skipped '\begin{tabular}' at line 1 column 16
[warning] Skipped '\end{tabular}' at line 10 column 14
<p><span>cc</span> A &amp; B<br />
C &amp; D</p>
<ul>
<li><p>1</p></li>
<li><p>2</p></li>
<li><p>3</p></li>
<li><p>4</p></li>
<li><p>5</p></li>
</ul>

However, pandoc should produce following output:

<table>
<tbody>
<tr class="odd">
<td style="text-align: center;">A</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">B</td>
</tr>
<tr class="even">
<td style="text-align: center;">C</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">D <ul>
<li><p>1</p></li>
<li><p>2</p></li>
<li><p>3</p></li>
<li><p>4</p></li>
<li><p>5</p></li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

[jgm]

Yes, so far we only have simpTable, which parses simple tables (no relative widths, no block structure in cells). To allow things like lists in cells, we'd also need relative widths.

[jgm]

Did you try compiling that snippet with pdflatex?
When I try, I get an error - "! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item" at line 8 "\item 1".
When I enclose the itemize environment in a minipage environment, it works fine -- and pandoc handles that case fine too.

If this is invalid LaTeX, then it's not a problem with pandoc.

[jgm]

Closing this, but feel free to comment if you think there's a mistake.

[schrieveslaach]

Sorry, I made a mistake in the example. When you specifc p as column type, itemize environments are allowed in tabular. Here is a full example:

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{|c|p{0.9\linewidth}|}
  \hline
    A & B \\
  \hline
    C & D \begin{itemize}
      \item 1                                     
      \item 2 
      \item 3
      \item 4 
      \item 5 
    \end{itemize} \\
  \hline
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

The PDF looks like this:

[schrieveslaach]

I also tested your solution with minipage, see following example:

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
  \hline
    A & B \\
  \hline
    C & \begin{minipage}{0.9\linewidth}
      D \begin{itemize}
      \item 1                                     
      \item 2 
      \item 3
      \item 4 
      \item 5 
    \end{itemize}
    \end{minipage} \\
  \hline
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

However, pandoc produces:

[warning] Could not load include file 'inputenc.sty' at line 3 column 28
[warning] Skipped '\hline
! ' at line 8 column 1
[warning] Skipped '\hline
! ' at line 10 column 1
[warning] Skipped '\hline
! ' at line 20 column 1
[warning] Skipped '\begin{tabular}' at line 6 column 16
[warning] Skipped '\end{tabular}' at line 20 column 14
<p><span>|c|c|</span> A &amp; B<br />
C &amp;</p>
<p>D</p>
<ul>
<li><p>1</p></li>
<li><p>2</p></li>
<li><p>3</p></li>
<li><p>4</p></li>
<li><p>5</p></li>
</ul>
<p><br />
</p>

[schrieveslaach]

pandoc 1.19.2.1 is able to parse the minipage example. Not the dev version (see previous post). Here is the ouput of 1.19.2.1

[user@host ~]$ pandoc --version
pandoc 1.19.2.1
Compiled with pandoc-types 1.17.0.5, texmath 0.9.4, skylighting 0.1.1.5
Default user data directory: /home/marc/.pandoc
Copyright (C) 2006-2016 John MacFarlane
Web:  http://pandoc.org
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is no warranty, not even for merchantability or fitness
for a particular purpose.
[user@host ~]$ pandoc -f latex -t html /tmp/t.tex
<table>
<thead>
<tr class="header">
<th align="center">A</th>
<th align="center">B</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="odd">
<td align="center">C</td>
<td align="center"><p>D</p>
<ul>
<li><p>1</p></li>
<li><p>2</p></li>
<li><p>3</p></li>
<li><p>4</p></li>
<li><p>5</p></li>
</ul></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>