docx: how to have carriage return in a cell table?

[aborruso]

Description

Hi,
if I use this qmd

---
title: "Title"
format:
  docx:
    toc: false
    number-sections: false
    highlight-style: github
---

# A title

Lorem ipsum

|a|b|
|---|---|
|1|2<br>3|

the docx output does not apply a carriage return where I have the <br> tag.

Is the "Grid tables", the only way to have a carriage return in the docx table output?

If yes, do you know some cli tool to convert json or csv to "Grid tables"?

Thank you

[mcanouil]

Pipe table, the one you are using, is not able to be read by Pandoc for multiline cells, see https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#tables for details about this.

So yes, you need something else than pipe table, you can use HTML table as described (now) in https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/tables.html#html-tables.

Alternatively, you can use pander in R, see an example below:

---
format: markdown
---

```{r}
library(pander)

# Define a Markdown pipe table
md_table <- "| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| A | B | C |\n| D | E | F |\n"

# Convert the Markdown pipe table to a data frame
df <- read.table(text = md_table, sep = "|", header = TRUE, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
df <- df[, -c(1, ncol(df))]

# Convert the data frame to a grid table using pander
pander(df, style = "grid")
```