From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Re: Some table questions Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:48:12 -0400 Message-ID: <27341.1251982092@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> References: <8696.1251909520@alphaville.usa.hp.com> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MjCr4-0006PI-Hb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:00:02 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MjCqz-0006Ib-SU for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:00:02 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33464 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MjCqz-0006IW-Ll for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:59:57 -0400 Received: from vms173007pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.7]:19601) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MjCqz-00029H-GC for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:59:57 -0400 Received: from gamaville.dokosmarshall.org ([98.110.172.159]) by vms173007.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPA id <0KPE00JDEESV3NN2@vms173007.mailsrvcs.net> for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:58:16 -0500 (CDT) In-reply-to: Message from andrea crotti of "Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:22:18 +0200." 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: andrea crotti Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org andrea crotti wrote: > Nick Dokos writes: > > > > > Check out section 12.6.4 (Tables in HTML export) of the Org manual. > > > > Thanks I found it very nice, my info manual differs from the online, > maybe because I'm still using version 6.28.. > > Anyway another thing, nested tables are not allowed, is it correct? > Sometimes I would like to have one row longer than one cell only but it > doesn't look possible.. > Yes, I think nested tables are not supported. I think that would be very difficult to do: the markup is not designed for ease of parsing (unlike e.g. HTML, where the beginning/end of the table are marked explicitly). > Every cell can't contain '\n' also as I found out, is that correct? > Not sure what you mean here: what's a cell? e.g. | a | b | c | | d | e | f | I can consider "a" as the contents of a cell (six cells), or I can consider "a d" as the contents of a cell (three cells in total). Org itself does not impose a cell concept on the table: it's just text. How that table gets translated e.g. to HTML is another matter: the current exporter does indeed make it into a 6-cell table, but there is nothing stopping you from enhancing it to do something different. If you do something interesting, you can always contribute it to org. And if you come up with a compelling use case, you might even be able to persuade somebody else to do the work for you !-) HTH, Nick