Whats the current recommendations for including tables in typst?

[aghaynes]

Description

When using the typst format, tables currently do not look overly nice

mtcars |> head() |> knitr::kable()

produces a table that looks like this

gt tables are basically the same

What is the currently recommended R package for creating nice tables in typst (if any)? Is this something that will be integrated into gt at some point perhaps?

[mcanouil]

Not really a Quarto question.

Typst is quite new.
Pandoc does not support all Typst features and does not support all markdown table syntax conversion to Typst.
Since Quarto is using Pandoc for most of the conversion from markdown to formats.

Now, for feature request about adding Typst as output, Search and open a new one if it does not exist:

• https://github.com/yihui/knitr
• https://github.com/rstudio/gt

Regarding R packages, I'm afraid a good search is the best way: https://cran.r-project.org/search.html (and/or on GitHub/GitLab).

[cderv]

Just mentioning here for any future reader:

Currently, Tables will usually be emitted as Markdown table by Tables generation tooling and then converted to Typst format with the Pandoc conversion. Quarto brings support for HTML parsing also, with the same conversion by Pandoc tables.

We are aware of specific table tools in the Typst ecosystem that could improve the output. This could be a feature request into Pandoc to improve their Typst writer for table output, but we are considering this ourselves. The issue to track for example:

• Typst: use tablex for output #6811

Also, for reference, this topic has been reported in knitr:

• table output for typst yihui/knitr#2328

And for the current existing feature request I know there is one in gt

• Add as_typst() function to support styled tables in typst Quarto output format rstudio/gt#1500

As shared by @aghaynes on another topic, it seems this R package already has some options to output Typst table: https://github.com/vincentarelbundock/tinytable

Hope it helps