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From: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
To: Peter Salazar <cycleofsong@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org tables
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:59:03 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8762eejugo.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE+_6TzvFskaKhXC5MTc-_+M9ZTawLAh7=mZVLJaSku3+TE4OQ@mail.gmail.com> (Peter Salazar's message of "Thu, 8 Mar 2012 21:20:23 -0500")

Hi Peter,

Peter Salazar <cycleofsong@gmail.com> writes:

> Is there a way to get org to wrap text within a table cell? I want to
> be able to enter long text entries into cells without expanding column
> width. 
>
> Also, is there a way to merge cells—say, three cells vertically?

This question sounded familiar, so I dug up this ancient post from the
list which offers some answers:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/10478

The link to the manual in the email is broken. The relevant section of
the manual is:

3.2 Column width and alignment
(info "(org) Column width and alignment")

Best,
Matt

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-09  3:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-09  2:20 org tables Peter Salazar
2012-03-09  3:59 ` Matt Lundin [this message]
2012-03-09 14:06 ` John Hendy

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