From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Davison Subject: table exporters should exclude column width specifiers Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 16:34:26 -0500 Message-ID: <20090201213426.GC13754@stats.ox.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LTjxe-0003tK-0P for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:34:38 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LTjxb-0003sb-6s for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:34:37 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47554 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LTjxb-0003sX-1C for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:34:35 -0500 Received: from markov.stats.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.210.1]:55628) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LTjxa-0001Bo-ID for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:34:34 -0500 Received: from blackcap.stats.ox.ac.uk (blackcap.stats [163.1.210.5]) by markov.stats.ox.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id n11LYR3d019591 for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 21:34:27 GMT Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs org-mode mailing list The csv and tsv table exporters are currently including the 'narrow columns' width specifiers. They are also appearing in the html export. I think they should be excluded, but I'm not sure what the best strategy is. It seems to me that if a row contains only width specifiers, then that row should be deleted. However, the manual says that "one field anywhere in the column may contain just the string ...". Is it possible that that is an undesirable amount of freedom? Might it be preferable to impose the restriction that if they are present, they are on their own row, with no other data on that row? Dan -- http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~davison