From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: [odt] Support for table templates (was Re: org->odt/html table export: adjusting default behaviour?)
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:26:45 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <81ehzj1m76.fsf_-_@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81pqjtqife.fsf@gmail.com> (Jambunathan K.'s message of "Fri, 26 Aug 2011 03:10:05 +0530")
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> If you need really prettier tables you can rely on Table->Autoformat.
I felt some sort of templating mechanism would be useful for odt
tables[1]. To this end, I have pushed some changes which honors ODF-1.2
spec[2].
The attached table-template.org and table-template.odt should serve as
an illustrative example of what is possible with the odt exporter.
Note that you need to modify automatic-styles that are in
contrib/odt/styles/OrgOdtContentTemplate.xml. (Please consult the
comments in the attached org file.)
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#+TITLE: table-template.org
#+AUTHOR: Jambunathan K
#+EMAIL: kjambunathan@gmail.com
#+DESCRIPTION:
#+KEYWORDS:
#+LANGUAGE: en
#+OPTIONS: H:3 num:t toc:t \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:nil -:t f:t *:t <:t
#+OPTIONS: TeX:t LaTeX:dvipng skip:nil d:nil todo:t pri:nil tags:not-in-toc
#+EXPORT_SELECT_TAGS: export
#+EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS: noexport
#+LINK_UP:
#+LINK_HOME:
#+XSLT:
* Customization
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(setq org-export-odt-table-styles
'(("TableWithHeaderRowAndColumn" "Custom"
((use-first-row-styles . t)
(use-first-column-styles . t)))
("TableWithFirstRowandLastRow" "Custom"
((use-first-row-styles . t)
(use-last-row-styles . t)))))
#+end_src
See docstring of =org-export-odt-table-styles= for more
information. Also unzip the exported odt file and inspect the
_content.xml_ for _automatic-styles_ starting with keyword _Custom_.
* Table Templates Illustrated
** Regular Org Table
This table has no *#+ATTR_ODT:* associated with it.
| Labels | C1 | C2 | C3 |
|------------+-------------+---------------+--------------|
| / | < | > | <> |
| <r> | <l> | <c> | <r> |
| R1 (Right) | R1C1 (Left) | R1C2 (Center) | R1C3 (Right) |
| R2 | R2C1 | R2C2 | R2C3 |
|------------+-------------+---------------+--------------|
| R3 | R3C1 | R3C2 | R3C3 |
| R4 | R4C1 | R4C2 | R4C3 |
|------------+-------------+---------------+--------------|
| R5 | R5C1 | R5C2 | R5C3 |
| R6 | R6C1 | R6C2 | R6C3 |
| R7 | R7C1 | R7C2 | |
|------------+-------------+---------------+--------------|
** Table using header row and column styles
This table uses table template named _Custom_ and selects the
following styles:
- first row
- first column
#+ATTR_ODT: TableWithHeaderRowAndColumn
| Labels | C1 | C2 | C3 |
|------------+-------------+---------------+--------------|
| / | < | > | <> |
| <r> | <l> | <c> | <r> |
| R1 (Right) | R1C1 (Left) | R1C2 (Center) | R1C3 (Right) |
| R2 | R2C1 | R2C2 | R2C3 |
|------------+-------------+---------------+--------------|
| R3 | R3C1 | R3C2 | R3C3 |
| R4 | R4C1 | R4C2 | R4C3 |
|------------+-------------+---------------+--------------|
| R5 | R5C1 | R5C2 | R5C3 |
| R6 | R6C1 | R6C2 | R6C3 |
| R7 | R7C1 | R7C2 | |
|------------+-------------+---------------+--------------|
** Table using first row and last row styles
This table also uses the same table template named _Custom_ and
selects the following styles:
- first row
- last row
#+ATTR_ODT: TableWithFirstRowandLastRow
| Labels | C1 | C2 | C3 |
|------------+-------------+---------------+--------------|
| / | < | > | <> |
| <r> | <l> | <c> | <r> |
| R1 (Right) | R1C1 (Left) | R1C2 (Center) | R1C3 (Right) |
| R2 | R2C1 | R2C2 | R2C3 |
|------------+-------------+---------------+--------------|
| R3 | R3C1 | R3C2 | R3C3 |
| R4 | R4C1 | R4C2 | R4C3 |
|------------+-------------+---------------+--------------|
| R5 | R5C1 | R5C2 | R5C3 |
| R6 | R6C1 | R6C2 | R6C3 |
| R7 | R7C1 | R7C2 | |
|------------+-------------+---------------+--------------|
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Footnotes:
[1] I find the Org's regular way of drawing the grid lines a bit out of
the normal (scholarly?). Internally, I needed some control over the
table cells for supporting numbered equations (which uses tables). Also
a user will prefer "Top-aligned" content for text-intensive tables and
"Centre-aligned" content for text-sparse tables.
[2] LibreOffice's Autoformat facility for tables is richer than what
ODF-1.2 templating mechanism provides for. Unfortunately it is difficult
to configure by hand (as is required for the odt exporter). Honestly
speaking, I had to spend quite a good amount of time tinkering with
automatic styles used with the attached files and I am certain that any
sort of in-built advanced templating mechanism within the odt exporter
would be, what to say, utter madness. I really wish LibreOffice
supported custom styles for table related components.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-14 9:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-25 15:12 org->odt/html table export: adjusting default behaviour? Matt Price
2011-08-25 15:36 ` Matt Price
2011-08-25 21:40 ` Jambunathan K
2011-08-26 14:24 ` Matt Price
2011-08-28 22:33 ` Jambunathan K
2011-08-28 22:40 ` [PATCH 1/2] Parse and store both col align and col width spec for later use Jambunathan K
2011-08-28 22:41 ` [PATCH 2/2] org-odt.el: Put table style and col sizes under direct user control Jambunathan K
2011-09-14 9:56 ` Jambunathan K [this message]
2011-08-25 22:01 ` org->odt/html table export: adjusting default behaviour? Jambunathan K
2011-08-26 14:13 ` Matt Price
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