Correct HTML table styles in PDF

[Ppantaleo]

Description

Hi, I have added two tables directly in HTML, because of the formatting they have, but the PDF looks wrong, how can I correct them?

https://github.com/PaideiaPublishingServices/Paideia-Editorial/tree/main/editar-publicar-financiar-ciencia-america-latina

[mcanouil]

Please use search either online or in the discussions.
This is a very classic LaTeX issue that has many answers in many places.

• https://duckduckgo.com/?q=latex+table+overflow

Also, please share a small reproducible example targeting the exact issue (don't share a massive repository/project) if you really must open a new discussion.

To debug your documents:

• use keep-md: true to see what your code is emitting.
• use keep-tex: true to look at the LaTeX code and debug it.

Note that Quarto parses HTML tables internally into what's called AST (a schematic representation of the document) which is then converted (mostly by Pandoc) into the relevant code (LaTeX in your case).

https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/tables.html

[Steinthal]

I agree with mcanouil on the search. According to the thread ("Pandoc converting HTML tables to PDF results in non-wrapped tables"), "LaTeX requires explicit specification of column widths if you want the cells to wrap".

So, when you state the column widths using a colgroup before <thead>, the table is limited to the text width:

  <colgroup>
    <col width="28%">
    <col width="12%">
    <col width="12%">
    <col width="12%">
    <col width="12%">
    <col width="12%">
    <col width="12%">
  </colgroup>