From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Michael Brand <michael.brand@alumni.ethz.ch>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: a few suggestions for org-mode table
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:18:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6B27998C-463C-44AB-AB23-E103F6F3460A@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A3BAEDC.50101@alumni.ethz.ch>
On Jun 19, 2009, at 5:29 PM, Michael Brand wrote:
> 1) I would like to have the fixed width columns in tables to be able
> to wrap around text as an alternative to the now implemented text
> truncation. As a "workaround" I use this:
>
> | x | first letter |
> | y | the greek |
> | | \ letter |
> | | \ ypsilon |
> | | z still empty |
> | t | x, y, z and t |
>
> This is almost perfect except the real pain for the manual rewrap
> when changing the text. The difficulty I see here is to define, how
> do I want to indicate the top and bottom edge and width of the cell?
> Probably by padding the separators +---+---+ and defining the column
> width <9> if they are not already there. But since I would like to
> optionally remove the separators again after the change, it would be
> necessary to have some indentation like I did with `\ ' and which
> should not conflict with alignment.
>
>
> 2) One could like to have configurable left/right alignment, even
> combinable with column width, e. g.
>
> | <l10> | <r> |
> | 3.14 | 0x10 |
> | 3.141592=> | 0x32 0x10 |
This is an excellent idea.
> 3) One could like to have decimal point alignment
>
> | 432.10 |
> | 5'432.1 |
Hmm, yes, would be nice, but maybe a bit hard. I'll put it on my list.
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-21 6:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-19 15:29 a few suggestions for org-mode table Michael Brand
2009-06-21 6:16 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-06-21 6:18 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2009-06-22 6:14 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-08-19 20:51 ` a few suggestions for org-mode table, bug report Michael Brand
2009-08-20 6:47 ` Carsten Dominik
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