Add flextable connector for export_tfl()#18
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Support passing flextable objects (and lists of them) directly to export_tfl(). Captions from set_caption() are extracted into writetfl's caption zone. Footer rows from footnote() and add_footer_lines() are extracted as plain text into writetfl's footnote zone, then removed from the table to avoid duplication. Rendering uses flextable's native gen_grob() which preserves all formatting (borders, merged cells, colours, themes). Non-PDF-safe fonts (e.g. Arial default) are automatically replaced with Helvetica. Pagination splits body rows across pages when a table is too tall, with a documented limitation that per-cell formatting is not preserved. Includes S3 method, converter, 11 helpers, 64 tests (100% coverage), vignette, README/main vignette updates, and design doc updates. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Support passing flextable objects (and lists of them) directly to export_tfl(). Captions from set_caption() are extracted into writetfl's caption zone. Footer rows from footnote() and add_footer_lines() are extracted as plain text into writetfl's footnote zone, then removed from the table to avoid duplication. Rendering uses flextable's native gen_grob() which preserves all formatting (borders, merged cells, colours, themes). Non-PDF-safe fonts (e.g. Arial default) are automatically replaced with Helvetica.
Pagination splits body rows across pages when a table is too tall, with a documented limitation that per-cell formatting is not preserved.
Includes S3 method, converter, 11 helpers, 64 tests (100% coverage), vignette, README/main vignette updates, and design doc updates.