[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [O] What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?
From: |
Charles C. Berry |
Subject: |
Re: [O] What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells? |
Date: |
Mon, 2 Mar 2015 15:16:52 -0800 |
User-agent: |
Alpine 2.00 (OSX 1167 2008-08-23) |
On Mon, 2 Mar 2015, Matt Price wrote:
I have a project which will require me to enter about a paragraph in each
of 5 fields several times a day. I would use org tables, but I need to be
able to see the table contents in the buffer, and org hides long lines. I
tried using table.el but it feels incredibly clumsy - for instance, I can't
find a way to add a row to the end of the table, which seems crazy.
I am wondering what other people do in this situation - I guess I could
use a spreadsheet or an odt document but I would much rather stay in emacs
if I can.
I sometimes use babel blocks for this purpose.
For example, with ob-org.el loaded, with this org file:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+NAME: abc
#+BEGIN_SRC org :exports none
This is chunk ~abc~.
#+END_SRC
Formatting via ascii:
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var x=abc() :exports results
(org-export-string-as x 'ascii t)
#+END_SRC
And plainly: call_abc()
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
export via ascii yields:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Formatting via ascii:
,----
| This is chunk `abc'.
`----
And plainly: `This is chunk ~abc~.'
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
You can also use the noweb idiom to capture the contents of
any kind of src block.
HTH,
Chuck
- [O] What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?, Matt Price, 2015/03/02
- Re: [O] What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?, Rasmus, 2015/03/02
- Re: [O] What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?,
Charles C. Berry <=
- Re: [O] What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?, Charles C. Berry, 2015/03/03
- Re: [O] What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?, Tory S. Anderson, 2015/03/03
- Re: [O] What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?, Jude DaShiell, 2015/03/05
- Re: [O] What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?, Skip Collins, 2015/03/05
- Re: [O] What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?, Tory S. Anderson, 2015/03/05
- Re: [O] What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?, Skip Collins, 2015/03/05
- Message not available
- Re: [O] What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?, Skip Collins, 2015/03/06
- Re: [O] What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?, Tory S. Anderson, 2015/03/06
- Re: [O] What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?, Skip Collins, 2015/03/06