Needs option for max table width

What is the problem?

Not possible to set max width on table format.

Example, when formatting a table like this:

| H1                | H2                                  | H3  |
| :------------- | :------------------------- | :---- |
| Bar                | Some very<br>long line of<br>text Some very<br>long line of<br>textSome very<br>long line of<br>text Some very<br>long line of<br>text | Foo |

it will format it into something like this:

| H1                 | H2                                                                                                                                     | H3  |
| :----------------- | :------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :-- |
| Bar                | Some very<br>long line of<br>text Some very<br>long line of<br>textSome very<br>long line of<br>text Some very<br>long line of<br>text | Foo |

I would like a setting to set the max amount of dashes (“-” in “| :— |”) since Pandoc will use number of dashes to set the rendered table width in html.

[yzhang-gh]

Thanks for the information.

I will leave this (option for max cell width) as a feature request. Let’s see whether there are other people having the same issue.

an option to only format the table the cursor is at

I will add the support for DocumentRangeFormatting later. (Probably next weekend as I am away this week)

[ownbee]

I’ve tried it out and spaces is not taken into account by Pandoc. However, I would prefer not to pad with spaces since the whole idea is to have a small/neat table in the markdown file and just a few rows that stand out from the rest of the table.

No, its not meaningless, I usually have a few tables that have one or two rows that are long and but I still want to format the rest of the tables.

Like this:

| H1   | H2     | H3   |
| :---- | :----- | :--- |
| Bar1  | Normal | Foo  |
| Bar2  | Very long long long text | Foo  |
| Bar3  | Normal | Foo  |
| Bar4  | Normal | Foo  |

If you don’t think this is a good idea, can you at least consider an option to only format the table the cursor is at? Because now, all tables in the whole file are formatted when Alt-Shift-F. Then I could format the tables with long rows myself.

I don’t think it’s possible to set the width of tables in Pandoc in an easy way. Maybe with html tags and css inside the markdown but that is too much effort.

PS: Seems like I accidentally closed the issue.