Feature Request: Columns

[michelk]

LaTeX Beamer for example supports column-layout.

It would be nice, if this would also be available in patat. Pandoc supports this since this commit.

[jaspervdj]

This seems reasonable (although I guess you can already do something similar with tables).

Could you mock up a screenshot (or txt...) of what you expect the output to look like?

[michelk]

I would like to patat behave like tmux or vim when doing a vertical split. This would need information about the terminal width. I'm not sure if this is easy to query. An additional enhancement would be auto-updating, if terminal width (e.g. within a tmux session) changes.

So for example from

## Columns
 :::::::::::::: {.columns}
 ::: {.column width="50%"}
 left column content:
 
 - uno
 - due
 - tre
 
 > Some quote
 
 :::
 ::: {.column width="50%"}
 right column content
 
 Code with empty line:
 
     puts "wow"
 
     puts "amaze"
 
 > Some quote
 
 :::
 ::::::::::::::

I would expect

## Columns
 
 
 left column content:                       | right column content
                                            | Code with empty line:
 - uno                                      |
 - due                                      |     puts "wow"
 - tre                                      |
                                            |     puts "amaze"
 > Some quote                               |
                                            | > Some quote