From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jambunathan K Subject: Re: Side-by-side support Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:04:54 +0530 Message-ID: <81bopucr81.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87aa5lwfxm.fsf@med.uni-goettingen.de> <81pqefv4r9.fsf@gmail.com> <4F1CBD8F.2050404@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:48185) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RpMrN-00049C-E9 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:35:10 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RpMrM-0002p3-7J for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:35:09 -0500 Received: from mail-gy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.160.169]:57103) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RpMrM-0002or-1g for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:35:08 -0500 Received: by ghrr14 with SMTP id r14so1429295ghr.0 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:35:07 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4F1CBD8F.2050404@gmail.com> (Christian Wittern's message of "Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:53:19 +0900") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Christian Wittern Cc: Nicolas Goaziou , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hello Christian Christian Wittern writes: > On 2012-01-20 05:03, Jambunathan K wrote: >> "side-by-side" has surfaced in the list for the second time, I think it >> deserves to be supported "out of the box". > I strongly support this, since I have a lot of files with side-by-side > content. The first question is of course how does the org source look > like. I think laying out tables either "list tables" (or for that matter, it's "beamer equivalent") will become particularly "inconvenient" to edit. In both the cases, the two-dimensional structure is laid out along the single-dimension and it would become difficult to "remember" which column or row when one is editing at a given point in time. > In my case, I have simply separated the columns by a character > and set the tab-width to a sensible value for nice on-screen display. > These are 'text' and 'translation of that text' side-by-side, When you are saying on-screen display, I presume you are referring to the Emacs screen? I have a strong feeling that you are using two column editing. Otherwise, it would be extremely difficult to keep one's sanity. See C-h k C-x 6 2 (info "(emacs) Two-Column"). I have a wild-thought. Why not use use 2C editing for creating multi-paragraph Org tables. I am Ccing Nicolas (who is likely to have thought more about this stuff) since the last conversation. > sometimes interrupted by section headers, notes and so on. Therefore I > end up with multiple 'tables', which will need to have the same width > throughout the document. Therefore for this use-case, I would like to > see a global setting for the relative width of these columns. --