render title/footnote/source_note as multiple lines in Word

[mmz2001]

Proposal

Please allow this: render title/footnote/source_note as multiple lines in Word. This is a critical issue since most regulatory documents are in Word.

While we can render title/footnote/source_note as multiple lines in HTML, we can't do it in Word. The following will fail in Word.

tab_source_note(source_note = "source note test ^lline2 \nline3
Line 4
Line5
Line6")

[thebioengineer]

With the latest PR of word updates to gt, if you put multiple new lines and wrap the text in an md, the word output can make it in multiple lines. I suspect that will be merged in soon.

mtcars[1:2,] |>
  gt() |>
  tab_source_note(source_note = md("source note test ^lline2 \n\nline3\n\nLine 4\n\nLine5\n\nLine6")) |>
  gtsave("multiline_source.docx")

[dereksonderegger]

I found that when implementing the above solution with multiline titles, I get unexpected behavior with both title lines being numbered as different tables.

library(gt)
library(dplyr)
#> 
#> Attaching package: 'dplyr'
#> The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
#> 
#>     filter, lag
#> The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
#> 
#>     intersect, setdiff, setequal, union

palmerpenguins::penguins |>
  select(species, island, sex, bill_length_mm, bill_depth_mm) |>
  slice(1:5) |>
  gt() |>
  gt::tab_header(
    title = md('This is a \n\n multiline title'),
    subtitle = md(paste(
      '**With a subtitle** \n\n',
      '*that is also multiline*')))

This works great in HTML, but in the Word doc, I get both title lines being prefixed by a table number, thus throwing off the actual table count index.

I can work around this easily enough by just having all of the multiline stuff in the subtitle, but this shouldn't end up with two table labels.