Markdown

[Diegotab]

Hi!

After playing around with Markdown for a bit, I have a couple more of questions.

1. Is there any way to tell Markdown that I want to split a page in two?
2. When the output is a word document, how do we go about formatting tables? Is there any code that we can use? Moreover, is there any way to add color scheme to tables?

Thanks in advance! Diego

[christophergandrud]

Do you mean split a page into two columns? Yes, though this would require formatting instructions in either CSS (for a website) or LaTeX for a PDF.

We'll do more table formatting in a future class. I know you can add a colour scheme to webpage and pdf tables, but actually don't know about Word.

[Diegotab]

Yes! I mean splitting a page into two columns.

[christophergandrud]

For pdf documents use classoption: twocolumn in the header, e.g.:

---
title: "Untitled"
date: "4 March 2016"
output: pdf_document
classoption: twocolumn
---

This adds the twocolumn option to the document class (which by default is something LaTeX calls article).

[Diegotab]

Cool! Thank you :)