Feature request: support for table rows with newlines

[bloonix]

Hi,

at first: thank you for your great work of pandoc!

My issue:

Unfortunately pandoc does not allow newlines in a table row.

Markup languages should increase the readability of content, but if no newlines are allowed in table rows, the readability is not given.

As example... do you see the column delimiters in the following table? That is absolutely not readable and totaly annoying:

|Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.|Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.|Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.|

The following example is much more readable, because each table colums starts with a pipe at the begining of the line:

|Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
|Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
|Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
|

You can test it here http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/index.php and you will see that newlines should be well supported.

Is it possible to implement this feature? That would be really cool.

Cheers,
Jonny

[jgm]

+++ Jonny Schulz [Nov 05 12 01:17 ]:

Hi,

at first: thank you for your great work of pandoc!

My issue:

Unfortunately pandoc does not allow newlines in a table row.

Yes it does, in "multiline tables" and "grid tables." See the documentation.
But I guess you are just interested in pipe tables?

[jgm]

Oh, are you talking about the textile reader in particular?

[bloonix]

I am talking about textile markup.

If I create a table-row:

| A
| simple
| table
| row
|

Then the html output should looks like:

`

a

simple

table

row

`

But pandocs output is

<p>| A <br />| simple <br />| table<br />| row<br />|</p>

And I think that is not correct.

Check it out:
http://txstyle.org/doc/15/tables
http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/index.php

Cheers,
Jonny

[jgm]

I've already added support for this. Thanks.

+++ Jonny Schulz [Nov 06 12 08:58 ]:

I am talking about textile markup.

If I create a table-row:

| A
| simple
| table
| row
|

Then the html output should looks like:

a
simple
table
row

But pandocs output is

| A
| simple
| table
| row
|

And I think that is not correct.

Check it out:
[1]http://txstyle.org/doc/15/tables
[2]http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/index.php

Cheers,
Jonny

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References

1. http://txstyle.org/doc/15/tables
2. http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/index.php
3. Feature request: support for table rows with newlines #654 (comment)