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Re: Elisp Reference Manual on inserting tables


From: Jean Louis
Subject: Re: Elisp Reference Manual on inserting tables
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2022 12:48:08 +0300
User-agent: Mutt/2.2.7+37 (a90f69b) (2022-09-02)

* Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> [2022-11-06 11:32]:
> > When thinking of any table, I like to think of data and then the
> > visual table becomes the representation of it.
> > 
> > "Inserting table" means "representing data in a table".
> > 
> > Something I do every day.
> 
> Right.  But there does not seem to be a let of support or tutorial about
> how to make them in any type of buffer.

Because those are higher level functions and packages. Maybe it exists
somewhere among existing Emacs packages. 

You can't expect anything you wish to be built in, that is why you
will create functions which you need.

I find alignment a difficult problem, that is why using Org table and
automatica alignment, and then export to Unicode or similar, will make
nice tables for purpose of presentation.

-- 
Jean

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