From: Michael Bach <phaebz@gmail.com>
To: Michael Bach <phaebz@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: orgtbl multicolumn support
Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 23:41:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4dc30b66.cac3e30a.2d35.ffff9c04@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4dc3097d.cac3e30a.5b1f.ffff9c8f@mx.google.com> (Michael Bach's message of "Thu, 05 May 2011 23:32:56 +0300")
Michael Bach <phaebz@gmail.com> writes:
# edit
> Dear org-mode Users and Developers,
> I just wanted to know whether there are plans to support multicolumns in
> default orgtbl-to-latex. Something along these lines:
>
> #+ORGTBL: SEND multicol orgtbl-to-latex :splice t :skip 0 :hline "\\midrule"
> | | a | b | c |
> |---+---+-------------+---|
> | 1 | | mc(2)(c)(3) | |
> | | 2 | mc(2)(c)(4) | |
>
> Would produce
>
> % % BEGIN RECEIVE ORGTBL multicol
> & a & b & c\NN
> \midrule
> 1 & & \multicolumn{2}{c}{3} & \NN
> & 2 & \multicolumn{2}{c}{4} & \LL
> % END RECEIVE ORGTBL multicol
# This should correctly read:
% % BEGIN RECEIVE ORGTBL multicol
& a & b & c \\
\midrule
1 & & \multicolumn{2}{c}{3} \\
& 2 & \multicolumn{2}{c}{4} \\
% END RECEIVE ORGTBL multicol
> The reason being that I would like to use \multicolumn often in the
> middle of an orgtbl. My workarounds with manually inserting the LaTeX
> macro are clumsy.
>
> I understood that users should write their own conversion functions. If
> I was going to try my fresh elisp fu, I wanted to ask here whether there
> exists a generic orgtbl syntax to implement the above intercell
> modification. I read the doc for version 7.5 but maybe there are also
> new methods in the dev version which I freshly use.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Michael Bach
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2011-05-05 20:32 orgtbl multicolumn support Michael Bach
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2011-05-06 19:05 ` Michael Bach
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