From: Neuwirth Erich <erich.neuwirth@univie.ac.at>
To: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
Cc: orgmode@grierwhite.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Multicolumn
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:44:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0B256A56-D434-4B08-AA03-47EB34218932@univie.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1a9xe7772.fsf@tsdye.com>
That is probably what I will have to do.
But since I want both html and LaTeX output, I have to two write separate output routines
in R which I had hoped to be able to avoid.
On Aug 29, 2012, at 4:39 AM, tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) wrote:
> Neuwirth Erich <erich.neuwirth@univie.ac.at> writes:
>
>> My problem is that the tables are produce by R code snippets.
>> The code snippets produce plain org tables, bracketed by attributes identifying
>> the text as ORG code.
>>
>>
>>
>> #+RESULTS:
>> #+BEGIN_ORG
>> | Jahr | Region | m | w | pWert | m.se | w.se |
>> |------+--------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------|
>> | 2000 | Sonst | 508 | 507 | 0.85 | 4.91 | 4.93 |
>> #+END_ORG
>>
>>
>> I am able to insert additional lines before and after the text produce
>> by the R commands with the following technique (in R):
>>
>>
>> print(as.table(NULL),quote=FALSE,type="org")
>> cat("|-------|\n")
>> print(res,type="org")
>> cat("|-------|\n")
>>
>>
>> So I could write a line with my multicol headers.
>> But for that to work, org mode would have to honor multicol indicators
>> in the text.
>
> Alternatively, compose latex or html tables in R and then have the source
> code block :results output latex or :results output html
>
> That should wrap the output in #+BEGIN_LATEX ... #+END_LATEX, which org
> will export directly to LaTeX, or #+BEGIN_HTML ... #+END_HTML, which org
> will export directly to HTML.
>
> hth,
> Tom
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 29, 2012, at 2:28 AM, "Christopher J. White"
>> <orgmode@grierwhite.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Erich,
>>>
>>> I have a hack for multicolumn support that may help... It's not
>>> great, but serves my purpose.
>>>
>>> I implemented a TWiki mode that uses orgtbl-minor-mode. TWiki pages
>>> support multicolumn cells by adding vertical bars with no
>>> separators:
>>>
>>> Display:
>>>
>>> | Multicol |
>>> | C1 | C2 |
>>>
>>> TWiki format:
>>> | Multicol ||
>>> | C1 | C2 |
>>>
>>> Notice the double vertical bars after Multicol. The number of
>>> vertical bars on every row must be the same. You can join as many
>>> cells as you want that way. I basically wanted to be able to still
>>> use orgtbl-minor-mode to edit such tables. So I hacked my
>>> twiki-import/export code to convert "||" to "| << |" and vice-versa.
>>>
>>> So the orgtbl version of the above looks like this in the buffer:
>>>
>>> | Multicol | << |
>>> | C1 | C2 |
>>>
>>> The down side is that the text "Multicol" will expand the display
>>> size of C1, so if it gets long, the table grows:
>>>
>>> | This is a long multicol cell | << |
>>> | C1 | C2 |
>>>
>>> So it gets me what I want, which is orgtbl editing, and
>>> import/export support to twiki format. Seems a similar technique
>>> could be backed in to any org export engine.
>>>
>>> ...cj
>>>
>>> On 8/28/12 5:10 PM, Neuwirth Erich wrote:
>>>> After some googling it seems that multicolumn support is not yet
>>>> implemented in org tables.
>>>> I would need multicolumn headers quite urgently,
>>>> but I have not yet found a way to make this possible.
>>>>
>>>> I think that tables with headers like this:
>>>>
>>>> | | mean | s.e. |
>>>> | gender | varA | varB | varA | varB |
>>>>
>>>> are quite common, so I really want to put this feature on the wish list.
>>>> I am not able to implement this myself.
>>>>
>>>> Erich
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Thomas S. Dye
> http://www.tsdye.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-29 7:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-29 0:10 Multicolumn Neuwirth Erich
2012-08-29 0:28 ` Multicolumn Christopher J. White
2012-08-29 1:05 ` Multicolumn Neuwirth Erich
2012-08-29 1:47 ` Multicolumn John Hendy
2012-08-29 2:39 ` Multicolumn Thomas S. Dye
2012-08-29 7:44 ` Neuwirth Erich [this message]
2012-08-29 14:27 ` Multicolumn John Hendy
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