From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Wittern Subject: Re: Side-by-side support Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:51:59 +0900 Message-ID: <4F1DF29F.6000403@gmail.com> References: <87aa5lwfxm.fsf@med.uni-goettingen.de> <81pqefv4r9.fsf@gmail.com> <4F1CBD8F.2050404@gmail.com> <81bopucr81.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59143) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RpTgE-0001Eq-8k for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:52:07 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RpTgD-0005Pb-96 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:52:06 -0500 Received: from mail-iy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.210.169]:37195) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RpTgD-0005PX-40 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:52:05 -0500 Received: by iadk27 with SMTP id k27so71388iad.0 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:52:04 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <81bopucr81.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Jambunathan K Cc: Nicolas Goaziou , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi Jambunathan, On 2012-01-24 01:34, Jambunathan K wrote: > >> In my case, I have simply separated the columns by a character >> and set the tab-width to a sensible value for nice on-screen display. >> These are 'text' and 'translation of that text' side-by-side, > When you are saying on-screen display, I presume you are referring to > the Emacs screen? I have a strong feeling that you are using two column > editing. Otherwise, it would be extremely difficult to keep one's > sanity. Actually I started out using 2C editing for this, but it came constantly in my way, so currently what I am doing is: (1) use a tab character to separate the two columns and (2) set the tab-width to 30 (in most cases), so that most of the columns are nicely separated. This works very well for editing in Emacs. However, at the moment I do not have an easy way to export this to ODT as it s. Now I have given further thought to this, maybe the following will work: (1) consecutive lines with 1 or more characters and the *same* number of such s will be considered as a table and the exporter will work with this as if it were a org-table. (Note that I usually only have two columns and as you said, with more columns one is probably better off using proper tables) (2) This option is switched on or off through a variable or a OPTION line in the header of the file. (3) as I mentioned earlier, it would be good to be also able to globally set the proportions (maybe this can already be done with column properties?) All the best, Christian -- Christian Wittern, Kyoto