Re: [O] Orthogonality of blocks

[Charles Turner]

On 27/12/11 21:12, Christian Moe wrote:
> will do it in HTML. Full example follows below. I'll leave LaTeX to
> those in the know...

Thanks. This was the "best" solution for me. I quote because the 
abstraction boundary between "how it's rendered" and "what I want to be 
rendered" is getting fuliginous. It would be much better imo to have 
blocks of first-class, and functions of higher-order on those blocks, so 
one could say (side-by-side block1 block2) and the side-by-side 
procedure would deal with the different format nuances. The idea is 
similar to that of the Henderson Escher examples in SICP[1], where you 
have "painters" and functions that combine "painters" in interesting 
ways.  Might be fun to investigate how far that can go with blocks in org.

@Jambunathan: Your examples render the blocks with sizes proportional to 
the contained text, rather than aligning as a table. I find that 
aesthetically displeasing :-(

Thanks all for the help.
        Charles.

[1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-15.html#%_sec_2.2.4