Header horizontal character style customization

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Hello,

I would like to create Pandoc Markdown compliant grid tables. For this I just 
need to be able to change the header horizontal character to '=' while leaving 
the table borders and column separators at '-' 

I think this small change would be an excellent addition. Thanks very much for 
your great library. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by m...@baseggio.ca on 25 Sep 2013 at 6:57

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Hi there,

Thanks for your feature request.  I've been looking at the Pandoc Markdown 
documentation, and it seems like one of the options for a table is the 
following:

  Right     Left     Center     Default
-------     ------ ----------   -------
     12     12        12            12
    123     123       123          123
      1     1          1             1

(the specs call this "simple table syntax").  I believe it's possible to get 
tables of this kind out of PrettyTable 0.7 and above by setting:

table.vrules = prettytable.NONE
table.hrules = prettytable.FRAME

Can you please let me know if this works for you in Pandoc?

If it does work, I'll make a PANDOC pre-define style (like the MSWORD_FRIENDLY 
one) so future Pandoc users don't need to figure this out for themselves.

Thanks again,
Luke

Original comment by luke@maurits.id.au on 6 Oct 2013 at 11:12

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Got it, but it makes tables like this:

---------------------------------------
  Right     Left     Center     Default
---------------------------------------
     12     12        12            12
    123     123       123          123
      1     1          1             1
---------------------------------------

Which I don't think will work.

Original comment by m...@baseggio.ca on 11 Oct 2013 at 2:53

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Confirmed that it does NOT work. 

Pandoc is looking for separations between columns otherwise it can't figure out 
that it's a table. 

I think the best is still adding an option to the original table because it's 
the nicest looking IMHO: 

+---------------+---------------+--------------------+
| Fruit         | Price         | Advantages         |
+===============+===============+====================+
| Bananas       | $1.34         | - built-in wrapper |
|               |               | - bright color     |
+---------------+---------------+--------------------+
| Oranges       | $2.10         | - cures scurvy     |
|               |               | - tasty            |
+---------------+---------------+--------------------+

BUT this would also work I think:

---------------------------------------
  Right     Left     Center     Default
--------- -------- ---------- ---------
     12     12        12            12
    123     123       123          123
      1     1          1             1
---------------------------------------

Original comment by m...@baseggio.ca on 11 Oct 2013 at 3:05

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How about:

table.hrules=HEADER
table.junction_char=" "
table.vertical_char=" "

This will produce:

  foo   bar   baz  
 ----- ----- ----- 
   1     2     3   
   1     2     3   
   1     2     3 

Which should work according to the Pandoc docs.

Original comment by luke@maurits.id.au on 13 Oct 2013 at 5:53

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There we go, that works great with pandoc! Thanks for the help.

Original comment by m...@baseggio.ca on 13 Oct 2013 at 6:09

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Wonderful!  Glad it works.  I will make sure that in the next release there is 
a PANDOC preset which makes this easy.  Thanks for letting me know about the 
Pandoc compatibility issue.

Original comment by luke@maurits.id.au on 13 Oct 2013 at 6:24

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No problem, you might want to call it PANDOC_MARKDOWN or something similar
to indicate that this is for Pandoc markdown parsing.

Thanks for the very useful work!

Original comment by m...@baseggio.ca on 13 Oct 2013 at 6:28