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authorJohn MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>2015-11-24 20:26:24 -0800
committerJohn MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>2015-11-24 20:26:24 -0800
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Updated README for new pipe table behavior.
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The cells of pipe tables cannot contain block elements like paragraphs
-and lists, and cannot span multiple lines. Note also that in LaTeX/PDF
-output, the cells produced by pipe tables will not wrap, since there
-is no information available about relative widths. If you want content
-to wrap within cells, use multiline or grid tables.
+and lists, and cannot span multiple lines. If a pipe table contains a
+row that is wider than the column width (see `--columns`), then the cell
+contents will wrap, with the relative cell widths determined by the widths
+of the separator lines.
Note: pandoc also recognizes pipe tables of the following
form, as can be produced by Emacs' orgtbl-mode: