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Re: [O] Composing long tables


From: Peter Davis
Subject: Re: [O] Composing long tables
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 10:33:33 -0400

Peter Davis <address@hidden> writes:

> Peter Davis <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> It seems that a lot of users would like to be able to create tables
>> with multi-line cells in org-mode. Both HTML and LaTeX/PDF support
>> this, so I think it would be very useful to have a way to do this in
>> org-mode directly. One syntax that comes to mind would be to simply
>> use a number of "|" characters at the start of a line/paragraph to
>> indicate the column:
>>
>> | This is column 1
>> || This is column 2, which might consist of a very long paragraph (or
>> | even multiple paragraphs) would could automatically wrap when
>> | exporting to LaTeX/PDF or to HTML (or to other table-friendly
>> | formats.)
>> ||| This is column 3,
>> |||| etc.
>>
>> Admittedly this is not as readable as a table when editing in org-mode, but 
>> it seems intuitively clear, and would certainly make creating tables for 
>> export easier.
>>
>> Just an idea. I'd welcome comments on this. (Note: I have nowhere near the 
>> knowledge of lisp or org-mode implementation to be able to do this.)
>
>
> I think Thunderbird put in those extra "|" on the column 2 item. It should 
> have been:
>
> | This is column 1
> || This is column 2, which might consist of a very long paragraph (or
> | even multiple paragraphs) would could automatically wrap when
> | |exporting to LaTeX/PDF or to HTML (or to other table-friendly
> | formats.)
> ||| This is column 3,
> |||| etc.
>

Well crap, Gnus did the same thing. What I intended was that the entire "This 
is column 2 ... other table-friendly formats.)" be on
one line, with no hard breaks.

-pd



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