Isn't this filter a duplicate effort to pandoc-csv2table ?

[KurtPfeifle]

You seem not to be aware of this filter:

• pandoc-csv2table (born 2 months ago)

This does a very similar thing to yours (born 2 days ago).

Wouldn't it be better if you two guys (@mb21 ad @baig) pooled your efforts into one?

[mb21]

Yes, I actually tried to use it but hit a bug. When I looked into fixing the bug, the decision to generate the table as a markdown string instead of directly generating a Pandoc AST struck me as quite error-prone and laborious, but it is a quite fundamental design decision in the filter, so I decided to roll my own, which:

• is only ~100 lines of code instead of ~450
• uses the spreadsheet package instead of csv, thus supports specifying custom delimiters
• has a compile flag to not require pandoc as a dependency, so building/cabal-installing without support for inline markdown is much quicker if you installed pandoc as a binary. but when compiled with inlinemarkdown support, there is also the inlinemarkdown=yes option to turn this on/off per csv.

[KurtPfeifle]

Thanks for the explanation.

Maybe you should add it to your README (or link to this issue from your README?) -- otherwise you will likely get more similar questions from other users...

[mb21]

You're right, added something to the README.