Easy way to get full width latex tables in pandoc

Want tables in your pdf that fills out your page width?

Some find that a table that spans the entire width of the page, looks better.

When using markdown as input in pandoc, this can be done like so:

| Phase            | Rate     | Timebudget | Subtotal |
| ------------------------------------------------------ | -------- | ---------- | -------: |
| Development      | 360      | 60         | 288000   |
| Integration      | 240      | 50         | 120000   |

Notice the second line with the many dashes.

Just make one column really long like that.

This will ensure the final pdf will have a table that fits the page width where the “Phase” column, in this example, takes up any width left over from the other columns in the table.