RST writer wraps the horz line table delimiters

[kaushalmodi]

Hello,

This issue came up as I was trying out the feature that was implemented to resolve #4750.

I have this example Org file:

| Option | Meaning                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
|--------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| =<=    | Left alignment, additional characters are added to the right (default for string).                                                                                                                         |
| =>=     | Right alignment, additional characters are added to the left.                                                                                                                                              |
| =^=     | Centered , the same amount of characters is added to the left and the right.                                                                                                                               |
| ===      | Padding. If a numeric value is printed with a sign, then additional characters are added after the sign. Otherwise it behaves like "=>=". This option is only available for numbers (default for numbers). |

If I save that as table.org, and run pandoc table.org -o table.rst, I get:

======
============================================================================================================================================================================================================
Option Meaning
======
============================================================================================================================================================================================================
``<``  Left alignment, additional characters are added to the right (default for string).
``>``  Right alignment, additional characters are added to the left.
``^``  Centered , the same amount of characters is added to the left and the right.
``=``  Padding. If a numeric value is printed with a sign, then additional characters are added after the sign. Otherwise it behaves like "``>``". This option is only available for numbers (default for numbers).
======
============================================================================================================================================================================================================

I was expecting the horizontal lines to not wrap i.e. have the generated RST look like below instead:

====== ============================================================================================================================================================================================================
Option Meaning
====== ============================================================================================================================================================================================================
``<``  Left alignment, additional characters are added to the right (default for string).
``>``  Right alignment, additional characters are added to the left.
``^``  Centered , the same amount of characters is added to the left and the right.
``=``  Padding. If a numeric value is printed with a sign, then additional characters are added after the sign. Otherwise it behaves like "``>``". This option is only available for numbers (default for numbers).
====== ============================================================================================================================================================================================================

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Pandoc version: 2.5

[jgm]

They definitely shouldn't wrap. This should be pretty easy to fix by inserting nowrap.

[kaushalmodi]

@jgm Can we please have a New Year release?:) I'm really looking forward to getting this fix. Thanks!

[mb21]

@kaushalmodi try the nightly releases...

[kaushalmodi]

@mb21 Thanks. I didn't know of pandoc nightly builds. I googled and found this: https://github.com/pandoc-extras/pandoc-nightly/releases/tag/hash-c998b937c.

I will try that out, though that does not have pandoc-citeproc packaged with it; I hope that using the stable release pandoc-citeproc with nightly pandoc doesn't cause any issue.

[kaushalmodi]

@mb21 Looks like I will need to rely on the official stable builds. I tried that nightly release but it is not a static binary, and so it doesn't work on my old RHEL 6.8:

km²~/sandbox/:pandoc> /home/kmodi/downloads/pandoc-amd64-4eb8a97a1/pandoc table.org -o table.rst
/home/kmodi/downloads/pandoc-amd64-4eb8a97a1/pandoc: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by /home/kmodi/downloads/pandoc-amd64-4eb8a97a1/pandoc)