From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Michael Gauland <mikelygee@no8wireless.co.nz>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Tables in ASCII export
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:42:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5AB2ECFB-0BD3-4848-B022-23DD830A98C6@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100220.075434.155163228.mikelygee@no8wireless.co.nz>
On Feb 19, 2010, at 7:54 PM, Michael Gauland wrote:
> carsten.dominik> this behavior is now the default, controlled by the
> new user option
> carsten.dominik> `org-export-ascii-table-widen-columns'.
>
> Thanks. That's a start, but what I really want is to have long cells
> folded, so
> that one table row might become several lines in the ASCII export.
> For example,
> if my table looks like this in org:
>
> | / | <10R> | <20> |
> | | 1 | The quick brown fo=> |
> | | 2 | Now is the time for |
>
>
> I want my ASCII export to look like this:
>
> 1 The quick brown fox
> jumped over the lazy
> dogs.
> 2 Now is the time for
> all good me to come
> to the aid of the
> party.
No, this is not possible.
For multi-line fields, please check out table.el, which makes such
tables. And Org does export them correctly.
- Carsten
>
> I've started looking at org-table-align to get a feel for how org
> deals with
> tables, but I'm still trying to puzzle out where this folding should
> be done.
> Any advice on that?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-20 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-06 19:15 Tables in ASCII export Michael Gauland
2010-02-10 15:49 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-02-12 17:49 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-02-19 18:54 ` Michael Gauland
2010-02-20 19:42 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
[not found] ` <20100223.125600.266023597.mikelygee@gmail.com>
2010-02-26 21:39 ` table.el support restored Carsten Dominik
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