Is there any way to get Pandoc to put vertical lines in PDF output tables without editing Pandoc's source code?
Currently I'm generating PDF's using:
pandoc --template pandoc-template.tex -V geometry:margin=1in -V geometry:a4paper --number-sections --variable file1.md -o file1.pdf
The markdown for the table looks something like:
+-----------------+-----------------+
| Row 1 | Some data 1 |
| Row 2 | Some data 2 |
+-----------------+-----------------+
Pandoc simply ignores vertical lines. I've found multiple questions on this topic, but the answer remains illusive.
The Latex generated for the markdown above should probably look something like, where the pipe characters tells Latex to generate vertical lines for the table:
\begin{longtable}{ | l | l |}
\hline
Row 1 & Some data 1 \\
Row 2 & Some data 2 \\
\hline
\end{longtable}
The code below is from the LaTex.hs Pandoc source file. I'm not a Haskell developer, but it does not seem to have an option to add the pipe characters required to create vertical lines in LaTex.
let colDescriptors = text $ concat $ map toColDescriptor aligns
modify $ \s -> s{ stTable = True }
return $ "\\begin{longtable}[c]" <>
braces ("@{}" <> colDescriptors <> "@{}")
-- the @{} removes extra space at beginning and end
$$ "\\toprule\\addlinespace"
$$ headers
$$ vcat rows'
$$ "\\bottomrule"
$$ capt
$$ "\\end{longtable}"
toColDescriptor :: Alignment -> String
toColDescriptor align =
case align of
AlignLeft -> "l"
AlignRight -> "r"
AlignCenter -> "c"
AlignDefault -> "l"
