Convert Word table to HTML with acronyms, equations, zotero citations

[ericpace]

Description

Hi,

I am manually preparing a complex table of around 7 columns and 50 rows. Cells may contain multiple paragraphs and bulleted text. Cells may also contain equations, citations (using Zotero) as well as abbreviations/acronyms. I also have rows which need to span multiple columns.

This table is too complex to be completed using an online tool such as tablesgenerator. I also need to be able to return to the table to make modifications which would be very incovenient with an online tool. RStudio is not capable of spanning rows.

My thinking was to maintain an updated table on Word and convert it to HTML/RST/* via Pandoc.

Attached is a very small MWE as a Word document.

I require that:

1. This table to be included in a Quarto document to eventually be rendered into HTML, PDF, and DOCX.
2. Equations are interpreted properly by Quarto
3. Citations are embedded into the HTML/RST/* (note: the intermediate format is not important to me) so they may be properly interpreted by Quarto
4. Abbreviations/acronyms are properly converted to using the \acr{…} syntax so that again, they may be properly interpreted by Quarto using the existing acronyms.yaml that I have inside the Quarto project.

I have tried, mostly, converting the DOCX table to HTML/RST via pandoc:

Equations

Converting to RST simply converts equations to plaintext, so not useful:

pandoc -f docx -t rst in.docx -o out.rst

Rendering equations in HTML output requires the use of MathJax, and the CDN is only included if HTML is generated as a standalone file, meaning that the <script> tag needs to then be manually added prior to the include block where the html table is going to be included. But this does work and addresses point 2 above:

pandoc -f docx -t html in.docx -o out.html --standalone

Citations

The following simply replaces citations with plain text:

pandoc -f docx -t html in.docx -o out.html

Adding 'citations' to the format only adds a class <span class="citation" data-cites="XXX"> to the html which is not interpreted by Quarto:

pandoc -f docx+citations -t html in.docx -o out.html

I am completely stuck here. I am just looking for a Pandoc output which can interpret Zotero citations and produce markdown citations, i.e. [@authoryear].

Abbreviations
I have no idea how to go about producing this.

Finally
As a bonus, this is a large table (c. 5000 words) and I have not managed to get proper multipage support in the PDF output.

System details

System: MacOS 15.3.2 (Intel)
Pandoc: 3.6.4
Quarto: 1.6.39

mwe.docx

[mcanouil]

See the documentation on HTML table: https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/tables.html#html-tables

[ericpace]

Thanks for the link, and I understand this can be made to work by including <span data-qmd="[@authoryear]"> and <span data-qmd="\acr{MWE}"> embedded within the HTML. Probably my question is then more related to Pandoc, as I have no idea how to force Pandoc to process citations and acronyms and surround them with the <span> tag.

[mcanouil]

If you want it to work properly in Quarto, you should let Quarto handle citations, etc. thus using the format shared.
Everything else is indeed unrelated to Quarto, so here is not the right place.