Rendering issues for GD fieldnotes converted through pandoc

[njr2128]

Problem

For fieldnotes created in GD (rather than from the wiki dump), the files need to be converted from gdocs to html.
NJR has recently been doing this by downloading from GD as .docx, then using pandoc to convert to html, using, ,e.g.:
pandoc --extract-media=. -o fa17_fld_mk_team_lifecasting-burnout-and-pouring.html -f docx -t html fa17_fld_mk_team_lifecasting-burnout-and-pouring.docx

This has worked well to simplify the html and remove clunky, unnecessary junk (which is the problem when one uses GD's built-in "download as html" option - see cu-mkp/fieldnotes-restructuring#4). HOWEVER, a new problem presented itself with some of the rendering of features in the html versions, namely tables.

Tables render as all centered, bolded lines of text.

Example

ORIGINAL:

CONVERTED HTML RENDER (https://fieldnotes.makingandknowing.org/pre-2018-Fall/sp18_rosenkranz-uchacz_naomi-tianna_varnishes-in-the-rain/sp18_rosenkranz-uchacz_naomi-tianna_varnishes-in-the-rain-2/sp18_rosenkranz-uchacz_naomi-tianna_varnishes-in-the-rain-2-varnish-making-testing-application.html):

HTML:

Potential Solutions

1. add some cookie-cutter CSS to the top of the html file to dictate the rendering of the "table", "header", and "odd" elements --> @gschare
2. try a different process to convert the file with pandoc: .docx to .md to .html (since pandoc seems to handle docx to md better) --> @njr2128

[njr2128]

downloaded .docx from GD, then used pandoc to convert to md (and extract media):
pandoc --extract-media=. -o sp18_rosenkranz+uchacz_naomi+tianna_varnishes-in-the-rain-2-varnish-making-testing-application.md -f docx -t gfm sp18_rosenkranz+uchacz_naomi+tianna_varnishes-in-the-rain-2-varnish-making-testing-application.docx

Then did some cleanup of the md doc (lbs interpreted as quotations). Then used pandoc to convert to html:
pandoc -o sp18_rosenkranz+uchacz_naomi+tianna_varnishes-in-the-rain-2-varnish-making-testing-application.html -f gfm -t html sp18_rosenkranz+uchacz_naomi+tianna_varnishes-in-the-rain-2-varnish-making-testing-application.md

[njr2128]

Result is not that much better:

but perhaps the underlying html is? See "even"/"odd" rather than "header"/"odd":

[njr2128]

This is the original google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WCQjFrBSbYgofm95DnSfH4uJz_hlMXQEtOFcWljRTTs/edit