Control the width of markdown table columns

[elsewhat-eq]

Currently, markdown tables are rendered with equal wide columns.

For some tables, I want to adjust the relative width of the columns for readability.
Is there a way of achieving this with markdown latex ?

Example table

| Tool Name | Tool Description |
|-----------|-----------|
| `get relevant  documents` | Get relevant documents to be used as context when constructing a knowledge graph. These document are specific to the business domain and contain important terminology and concepts to be used when constructing the knowledge graph |
| `get terminology list` | Get specific terminology and abbreviations to be used as context when constructing a knowledge graph. Use this to help understand terms and abbreviation encountered in the data |

: My table caption {width=0.9\columnwidth}

In 2021 , it was mentioned in #115 (comment)
"Another software package, Pandoc, allows you to specify the width of a column with the number of dashes below the header (for example, | --- | - | - | - | says that the first column gets half the width). There is no such support in Markdown at the moment, because it is not clear to me whether this is more benetifial than it is confusing to the end user. I may rethink this in the future."

[Witiko]

Hi again, @elsewhat-eq!

Is there a way of achieving this with markdown latex?

Not at this point, the comment from 2021 still stands.

I am open to feature requests to enable this functionality using a new option pipeTableColumnWidths but I don't expect to get to it before 2026. I might get to it sooner if there's interest by some of our other users such as @danopolan from @istqborg.

[danopolan]

@Witiko, we could use this option, but it's not critical for us now. But we can talk about it for sure.