Posted by Elisa on Feb 25, 2021; 6:01pm
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/asciidoctor-pdf-with-complex-tables-tp8542.html

I need to know what kinds of tables are possible with the latest asciidoctor-pdf because for me the pdf output is the most important.

I found some documentation of tables that are possible with "version 8.3.0" at https://asciidoc.org/newtables.html.

Needless to say, some of the tables don't work, and I'd like to know what table formats are available for use with the pdf output that is currently possible.

For the asciidoctor-pdf, I am running ruby 2.7.2p137 (2020-10-01 revision 5445e04352) [x86_64-darwin18], in order to enable the asciidoctor-pdf.

Output for AsciiDoc --version:

Asciidoctor 2.0.12 [https://asciidoctor.org]
Runtime Environment (ruby 2.7.2p137 (2020-10-01 revision 5445e04352) [x86_64-darwin18]) (lc:UTF-8 fs:UTF-8 in:UTF-8 ex:UTF-8)

When I run gem update on asciidoctor-pdf, I get a response that the latest gem is installed.

I do see that there is work being done on generating pdf output in other ways, however, it appears that footnotes, running headers and footers, fully functional TOCs and other refinements for publishing are not yet available through other pdf generators.