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cmadsen
cmadsen

Reputation: 372

Grid table with hard line break in first line with pandoc

How can I make pandoc create a cell with the first thing being a line break in a grid table?

The following makes latex say ! LaTeX Error: There's no line here to end.

+-----------------------------------+------------------------------------+
| X                                 | Y                                  |
+===================================+====================================+
|Total revenue:\                    | \                                  |
|  - Current year\                  | YYY\                               |
|  - Previous year\                 | XXX\                               |
|Total profit/loss:\                | \                                  |
|  - Current year\                  | TTT\                               |
|  - Previous year                  | ZZZ                                |
+-----------------------------------+------------------------------------+

Upvotes: 0

Views: 968

Answers (2)

cmadsen
cmadsen

Reputation: 372

Using \mbox{} \ will create the expected line breaks and no latex errors

+-----------------------------------+------------------------------------+
| X                                 | Y                                  |
+===================================+====================================+
|Total revenue:\                    | \mbox{} \                          |
|  - Current year\                  | YYY\                               |
|  - Previous year\                 | XXX\                               |
|Total profit/loss:\                | \mbox{} \                          |
|  - Current year\                  | TTT\                               |
|  - Previous year                  | ZZZ                                |
+-----------------------------------+------------------------------------+

I have created an issue at github https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/1733

Upvotes: 0

mb21
mb21

Reputation: 39189

Using linebreaks for layouting is frowned upon in Markdown and HTML. Because it's not semantic, but also because it often doesn't work well (like in your example).

I would make the table.... well, more tabular:

                                    X           Y
--------------  --------------      ----        ----
Total revenue:
                Current year        XXX         YYY
                Previous year       XXX         YYY
Total profit:
                Current year        XXX         YYY
                Previous year       XXX         YYY

Upvotes: 1

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