Re: Re: Aligning Columns in HTML Export Tables

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>,
	Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>,
	Dan Davison <dandavison7@gmail.com>,
	Baoqiu Cui <cbaoqiu@yahoo.com>
Cc: Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com>, Org-mode ml <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Re: Aligning Columns in HTML Export Tables
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:32:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53D6BE6F-C152-45DE-B01B-89D50B4848BC@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878w1svl7y.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca>

On Oct 20, 2010, at 7:16 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:

> Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Is there a way to specify a particular column in org-mode that will  
>> be
>> exported right-aligned in HTML?
>>
>> | A | B | C |
>> | 1 | 2 | 3 |
>>
>> For the table above, I would like column C right aligned when I  
>> export
>> to HTML, but the other column aligned in the default way (left
>> aligned?).
>
> I think this is supposed to work but it seems the exporters do not
> honour the alignment details.
>
> | <l> | <l> | <r> |
> | A   | B   |   C |
> | 1   | 2   |   3 |
> | 12  | 13  | 300 |
> | 9   | 11  |   4 |

I have now fixed this issue, at least for the HTML exporter.

1. The HTML exporter now puts a style attribute onto each
    individual field to make sure the field is aligned correctly.
    Many Browsers need this, as pointed out by Sebastian.
    If you do not like this overhead, you can configure
    org-export-html-table-align-individual-fields.  If you
    do, the alignment will still be noted in the column tags,
    handled correctly by Opera, but not by Firefox and Safari.

2. The HTML exporter will also honor a "<c>" cookie.  Note that
    this will not change anything inside an Org buffer - this would
    be complex to implement because of all the extra magic Org does
    with limited column width etc etc.

3. The LaTeX exporter does not yet honor <c>, while it does honor
    <l> and <r>.  The reason for this is that currently the vector
    remembering the alignment is a vector of booleans, and larger
    changes are necessary in order to allow for a third value.
    This will come, but I do not have the time today.

Eric and Dan,

please take note of this change and make sure that the Babel routines
do not get in trouble by this new cookie.

Baoqiu,

(or any other users of the docbook exporter)
I am not sure if the docbook format has suffered from this change,
could you please run a few tests involving tables and report back?

Jeff, thanks for kicking this threat off, this is a nice improvement.

Cheers

- Carsten

Cheers

>
> Regards,
> Bernt
>
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