Word output with gt::md() in column labels

[ddsjoberg]

Description

Using gt::md() with bold syntax in the header does not render properly

Reproducible example

---
title: "gt: checks"
output: word_document
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
```

## R Markdown

```{r, message = FALSE}
mtcars[1:5, 1:5] |> 
  gt::gt() |> 
  gt::cols_label(mpg = gt::md("**MPG**"))

Expected result

A bolded MPG column label

Session info

Session info

sessioninfo::session_info()
#> ─ Session info ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
#>  setting  value
#>  version  R version 4.2.1 (2022-06-23 ucrt)
#>  os       Windows 10 x64 (build 19042)
#>  system   x86_64, mingw32
#>  ui       RTerm
#>  language (EN)
#>  collate  English_United States.utf8
#>  ctype    English_United States.utf8
#>  tz       America/New_York
#>  date     2022-09-24
#>  pandoc   2.18 @ C:/Program Files/RStudio/bin/quarto/bin/tools/ (via rmarkdown)
#> 
#> ─ Packages ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
#>  package     * version    date (UTC) lib source
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#> ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Thank you for the best pkg ever! 🍁

[rich-iannone]

Thanks for discovering this and creating the issue! This one’s pretty important to fix.

[ddsjoberg]

Just a bit more detail: this also applies to the spanning headers. Thank you! 🍁

[thebioengineer]

Yeah, right now there isn't much support for markdown inline. I didn't investigate what was existing. It is on the list of things!

[ddsjoberg]

@thebioengineer if i can help in some way, please do let me know! thank you!

[thebioengineer]

I'm working through it, honestly your examples are super helpful. Testing word is not easy (@rich-iannone and I spent probably too many hours trying to think of ways) other than just opening up the word doc to see if it rendered properly

[rich-iannone]

Works great now!

[MikeJohnPage]

Using gt::md() renders different markdown syntax differently, depending upon where it is called.

Reprex:

---
format:
   docx: default
---


```{r}
gt::gt(gt::sp500[1:10, ]) |>
  gt::tab_header(gt::md("**Test header** <br>*__Test header two__*")) |>
  gt::tab_footnote(gt::md("_Test footnote_ <br>*__Test footnote two__*"))

Note:

• The header respects the bold and italics, but not the line break
• The footer does not respect any of the markdown syntax

Versions:

• gt: 0.11.0.9000
• quarto: 1.5.57

[rich-iannone]

@MikeJohnPage Thanks for bringing this up. I've made a new issue, #1892, to track this (comments in old, closed issues tend to get lost in the shuffle).

[MikeJohnPage]

Thanks @rich-iannone, I appreciate you taking a look at this.