Re: convert subtree or nested list to table

[Tim Cross]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Tuesday,  6 Jul 2021 at 15:10, Tim Cross wrote:
>> One advantage working with HTML has over latex is
>> that you don't have to worry about lines and line breaks and can have
>> really long cell lines which will get wrapped in HTML rendering. 
>
> Minor point: in LaTeX, the standard tabular environment has "p{X}" for
> paragraph columns (as opposed to "l" and "r", say) where X is some size
> (e.g. 10cm) and each entry is formatted as paragraphs.  You don't have
> to worry about line breaks etc.  So quite easy really.

Yes, that is true. However, you have to decide before hand how wide you
want the columns to be (i.e. it won't auto scale based on other data).
Typically, you have to do some 'trial and error' to work out what width
to make each column and avoid overful parbox warnings etc. With HTML,
you just specify the number of columns and it will scale to fit to the
page (screen) width. So, HTML great for display, sucks for printing.
latex, great for printing, but sucks for display. Getting things right
for latex tables/tabular environments is much harder than for HTML. Then
again, HTML tables sort of suck as well - much more flexible to have div
elements which you can style using a good grid/flow layout scheme.

-- 
Tim Cross