From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Michael <wuolong@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Table questions
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:20:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <60f1257f5926f45ccf7a1f521dd51f82@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1x3b7bbzco.fsf@bass.biostat.umn.edu>
On Dec 19, 2006, at 17:54, Michael wrote:
> I agree that you probably don't want to exactly replace the full power
> of
> Excel. But this simple feature makes it possible to keep track of
> simple
> data. I won't mind having to redo the formula after row swapping etc.,
> which I think won't happen so often for a given table anyway.
The question is exactly where to draw this border. Decisive
for me is if I can find a clear an logical way to define things.
I guess something more about this will materialize eventually, but it
will take a bit.
>
>> Yes, I think it would and I have been thinking to make this possible.
>> However, once I allow this, people will want to use \multicolumn, and
>> this seems for me to be beyond the scope.
>
> I think you can ignore the rows with multicolumn in it, which would
> satisfy
> most people I imagine.
by ignore you mean simple not format those lines? That might be an
option.
However, it is unlikely that I will the table editor in org-mode to
handle such cases. It is more likely that at some point I'll will
make a separate program based on it, that will be more flexible to
adapt.
- Carsten
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-19 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-14 16:19 Table questions Michael
2006-12-15 16:08 ` Eddward DeVilla
2006-12-15 18:15 ` Michael
2006-12-18 9:39 ` Carsten Dominik
2006-12-18 9:29 ` Carsten Dominik
2006-12-19 16:54 ` Michael
2006-12-19 22:28 ` Eddward DeVilla
2006-12-19 23:25 ` Carsten Dominik
2006-12-19 23:20 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
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