Re: Syntax Proposal: Multi-line Table Cells/Text Wrapping

[Juan Manuel Macías]

* sorry for the typo. I meant "...n columns x n rows..." 

Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> writes:

> Anyway, I suspect that Org tables are not originally intended for such a
> 'literary' content :-) ... LaTeX tabular(x) environment and Org tables
> have in common that they are plain text, but that’s where the
> similarities end. Org tables are visual (close to the WYSIWYG concept),
> which is why they are wonderful when it comes to mere data tables (and n
> files x n rows). The LaTeX tabular environment is crude, it is not
> 'visual' (except for the facilities provided by the editor), and when
> the table becomes large and complex it can be a torture working in
> there... So perhaps (IMHO) the solution to edit a cell in a dedicated
> buffer could be the least traumatic in complex cells, in case one wants
> to avoid going crazy by editing this kind of huge and literary tables in
> LaTeX ;-)