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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Michael Giepen <giepen.m@googlemail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-mode table alignment options (siunitx S-column)
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:58:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87egccpp6v.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56C11B7F.3050104@gmail.com> (Michael Giepen's message of "Mon, 15 Feb 2016 01:27:43 +0100")

Hello,

Michael Giepen <giepen.m@googlemail.com> writes:

> However, with wider tables you have to put a lot of attributes and the 
> following implementation would be clearer if it would be more org-mode 
> like with the attributes inside the table.
>
> #+CAPTION: My caption
> #+ATTR_LATEX: :align lS
> | Column |    Value |    Value |    Value |    Value |    Value |
> | <l>    |      <S> |      <S> |      <S> |      <S> |      <S> |
> | A      |   2234.2 |   2234.2 |   2234.2 |   2234.2 |   2234.2 |
> | B      | 243.2345 | 243.2345 | 243.2345 | 243.2345 | 243.2345 |
> | C      |     2.03 |     2.03 |     2.03 |     2.03 |     2.03 |
> | D      |      4.0 |      4.0 |      4.0 |      4.0 |      4.0 |
>
> But only l, c, and r and numbers for width are recognised within < >,  
> the S not.
>
> Could this be expanded somehow to allow for any letter, or at least to 
> the ones that make sense?

Org implements minimal alignment rules, but it does so across all major
export back-ends. Introducing some new syntax here has at least
2 drawbacks:

  1. It requires an implementation in every major back-ends, which may
     not be always possible (e.g., in LaTeX, another default package is
     required)

  2. It may introduce some false positives (e.g., is "| <foo> |" an
     alignment cookie or a regular field?).

I think #+ATTR_BACKEND: :align ... goes a long way towards removing
these limitations, at least on the export side.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2016-02-16 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-15  0:27 org-mode table alignment options (siunitx S-column) Michael Giepen
2016-02-16 16:58 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2016-02-16 19:55   ` Eric S Fraga

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