From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: mail@christianmoe.com
Cc: David Hajage <dhajage@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: row and col spaning in table?
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:08:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6E6093CC-E9DD-437A-A9C0-8A2F86225902@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C6B8C90.5010109@christianmoe.com>
On Aug 18, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Christian Moe wrote:
> Giovanni Ridolfi wrote:
>> David Hajage <dhajage@gmail.com> writes:
>>> and I was wondering if row and col spaning was possible?
>> Currently not. But, if this is your case, you should use the
>> table.el package.
>
> Yes. Still, I'd tentatively suggest adding a feature to span Org-
> table cells across rows and columns -- on *export* only. (Sorry if
> this has been thought of before.)
>
> Why? For static tables with complex layout, the table.el integration
> is just what the doctor ordered and works really smoothly, and clearly
> one would not want to mess up the ease and speed of Org-tables by
> adding complexity like row and column spanning in the table editor.
>
> But what if, say, one is using the spreadsheet functionality,
> frequently updates the content for publication, and would like to
> e.g. span headers over multiple sub-headers? It seems less than
> optimal to maintain and update a separate Org table, then convert it
> to table.el and manually edit it every time one wants to publish,
> spanning the same cells each time.
>
> For this purpose, it would be nice to be able to define reusable cell
> spans the same way table formulas are entered, and with the same
> syntax. Here's an idea for how it might look:
Hi Christian,
I am willing to offer a hook for this post processing, buy you would
have to write the code yourself.
- Carsten
>
> #+CAPTION: Foo and bar sales by region
> | Region | Sales | | | | | | | |
> | | Q1 | | Q2 | | Q3 | | Q4 | |
> | | foo | bar | foo | bar | foo | bar | foo | bar |
> |--------+-------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----|
> | North | 350 | 46 | 253 | 34 | 234 | 42 | 382 | 68 |
> | South | 462 | 84 | 511 | 78 | 435 | 45 | 534 | 89 |
> #+TBLSPAN: A1..A3::A2..I1::B2..C2::D2..E2::F2..G2::H2..I2
>
> The exporter would read the TBLSPAN line to see what cells should be
> merged. It would concatenate the cell contents (if any), and add the
> appropriate HTML, LaTeX or DocBook formatting. [1]
>
> +--------+-------------------------------------------------+
> | Region | Sales |
> | +-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
> | | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 |
> | +-------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
> | | foo | bar | foo | bar | foo | bar | foo | bar |
> +--------+-------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
> | North | 350 | 46 | 253 | 34 | 234 | 42 | 382 | 68 |
> +--------+-------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
> | South | 462 | 84 | 511 | 78 | 435 | 45 | 534 | 89 |
> +--------+-------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
>
> Another example:
>
> | | Col A | Col B | |
> |-------+-------+-------+-----|
> | Row 1 | A1 | B1 | C1 |
> | | A1b | B1b | C1b |
> | Row 2 | A2 | B2 | C2 |
> | | A2b | B2b | C2b |
> #+TBLSPAN: @1$3..@1$4::@2$2..@3$2::@4$3..@5$4
>
> would result in output like:
>
> +---+-----+-----------+
> | | A | B |
> +---+-----+-----+-----+
> | 1 | A1 | B1 | C1 |
> | | +-----+-----+
> | | A1b | B1b | C1b |
> +---+-----+-----+-----+
> | 2 | A2 | B2 C2 |
> | +-----+ |
> | | A2b | B2b C2b |
> +---+-----+-----------+
>
> [1] HTML: =rowspan= and =colspan= attributes of the =th= and =td=
> elements. LaTeX: =\multicolumn= and =\multirow= commands. DocBook:
> =namest=, =nameend= and =morerows= attributes of the =entry=
> element.
>
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-20 14:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-26 11:55 row and col spaning in table? David Hajage
2010-07-28 7:22 ` Giovanni Ridolfi
2010-07-28 18:28 ` Srinivas
2010-08-16 12:45 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-08-16 21:24 ` Tak Ota
2010-08-17 5:01 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-08-17 23:51 ` Srinivas
2010-08-18 7:32 ` Christian Moe
2010-08-18 7:58 ` David Hajage
2010-08-20 14:08 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-08-20 14:24 ` Christian Moe
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