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| author | Stephen McDowell <svenevs@users.noreply.github.com> | 2017-08-23 13:50:59 -0700 |
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| committer | John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu> | 2017-08-23 13:50:58 -0700 |
| commit | 5365baef9c141076f78505e98cf31e73c4736b74 (patch) | |
| tree | ac9323f58a23e8acc29c7502387cd74d036b6adf /MANUAL.txt | |
| parent | 5c1d844e40b146dd16e88a662368fe1824c46888 (diff) | |
| download | pandoc-5365baef9c141076f78505e98cf31e73c4736b74.tar.gz | |
add documentation of limitations of grid tables (#3864)
- see discussion: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pandoc-discuss/r9fAeeV3dSw
- grid tables cannot have row spans or column spans
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diff --git a/MANUAL.txt b/MANUAL.txt index 902f131f2..7f22023e7 100644 --- a/MANUAL.txt +++ b/MANUAL.txt @@ -2518,6 +2518,18 @@ For headerless tables, the colons go on the top line instead: | Right | Left | Centered | +---------------+---------------+--------------------+ +##### Grid Table Limitations ##### + +Pandoc does not support grid tables with row spans or column spans. +This means that neither variable numbers of columns across rows nor +variable numbers of rows across columns are supported by Pandoc. +All grid tables must have the same number of columns in each row, +and the same number of rows in each column. For example, the +Docutils [sample grid tables] will not render as expected with +Pandoc. + +[sample grid tables]: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#grid-tables + #### Extension: `pipe_tables` #### |