import table file

[michoug]

Hi,
I have big tables that I want to include in my manuscript, but I would prefer it if they could be imported directly from an outside file as are the figures (images/images.png). Is it possible? it would be something like this, maybe

![lA table with a top caption and specified relative column widths](tables/tables.txt){#tbl:bowling-scores}

where tables.txt contains just

| *Bowling Scores* | Jane          | John          | Alice         | Bob           |
|:-----------------|:-------------:|:-------------:|:-------------:|:-------------:|
| Game 1 | 150 | 187 | 210 | 105 |
| Game 2 |  98 | 202 | 197 | 102 |
| Game 3 | 123 | 180 | 238 | 134 |

Best
Greg

[agitter]

This would be a great feature, but I don't know of any examples doing this with Manubot. A related question came up previously (#350). At the time, we recommended the Pandoc filter pandoc-placetable. However, that filter is only compatible with pandoc < 2.10 so it won't work with recent version of Manubot.

pandoc-csv2table may be able to support. If you want help setting up Manubot to use this Pandoc filter, we can help with that.

[rando2]

@michoug, we were able to implement this (see linked PR above and greenelab/covid19-review#1104) by reading the data into python via pandas, using DataFrame.to_markdown to convert it to markdown, and storing that in the .json file we use to handle other variables. Then the table can be inserted into the manuscript as {{variable_name}}.