From: Tak Ota <Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com>
To: carsten.dominik@gmail.com
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, sp_us@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Re: row and col spaning in table?
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:24:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100816.142400.137582176.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62DFCAAE-CE93-460E-A4C2-8920029BD44B@gmail.com>
Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:45:03 -0700: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 28, 2010, at 8:28 PM, Srinivas wrote:
>
> > Giovanni Ridolfi <giovanni.ridolfi <at> yahoo.it> writes:
> >
> >>
> >> David Hajage <dhajage <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >>> and I was wondering if row and col spaning was possible?
> >> Currently not.
> >> But, if this is your case, you should use the table.el package.
> >>
> >
> > For some reason, I haven't been able to get table.el to work
> > properly during
> > the org-mode publish operation.
> >
> > Carsten had mentioned that this functionality had been fixed in the
> > 6.36x
> > builds but I still haven't been able to get it to work. I would like
> > to see a
> > work example, if you have one.
> >
> > Here is my sample file:
> >
> > ---- begin snip
> >
> > * sample table
> >
> > + ------+--------+
> > +-------+--------+
> > | | file |
> > +-------+--------+
> > + ------+--------+
> > | | file |
> > + ------+ |
> > | test | test |
> > + ------+--------+
>
> What is this table above supposed to mean?
>
>
> > * Org mode table
> >
> > | Header 1 | Header 2 |
> > |----------+----------|
> > | R1 C1 | R1 C2 |
> > | R2 C1 | R2 C2 |
> > | R3 C1 | R3 C2 |
>
> This org-mode table works fine.
>
> >
> > * table.el table
> >
> > Following table has 1 multi column cell and 1 multi row cell.
> >
> > +----------+----------+
> > | Header 1 | Header 2 |
> > +----------+----------+
> > | R1 C1-2 |
> > +---------------------+
> > | R2 C1 | R2-3 C2 |
> > +----------+----------+
> > | R3 C1 | |
> > +----------+----------+
>
> This starts an infinite loop when trying to convert it to HTML.
> Org is simply calling the HTML converter in table.el, and that
> code gets stuck. So I think this is a bug in table.el - please
> contact the author of that package,
>
> Takaaki Ota <Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com>
The above table is illegal from the table.el definition point of view.
The three way intersection between the cells "R1 C1-2", "R2 C1" and
"R2-3 C2" must be a '+' instead of a '-'. I admit the current
implementation is inferior as it gets into infinite loop instead of
reporting this error.
-Tak
>
> And report back here!
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Carsten
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-16 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-26 11:55 row and col spaning in table? David Hajage
2010-07-28 7:22 ` Giovanni Ridolfi
2010-07-28 18:28 ` Srinivas
2010-08-16 12:45 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-08-16 21:24 ` Tak Ota [this message]
2010-08-17 5:01 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-08-17 23:51 ` Srinivas
2010-08-18 7:32 ` Christian Moe
2010-08-18 7:58 ` David Hajage
2010-08-20 14:08 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-08-20 14:24 ` Christian Moe
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