From: "Juan Manuel Macías" <maciaschain@posteo.net>
To: tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Syntax Proposal: Multi-line Table Cells/Text Wrapping
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 12:08:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7l7xuxw.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o8ffxvmt.fsf@posteo.net> ("Juan Manuel Macías"'s message of "Fri, 19 Mar 2021 11:53:14 +0100")
* sorry for the typo. I meant "...n columns x n rows..."
Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> writes:
> Anyway, I suspect that Org tables are not originally intended for such a
> 'literary' content :-) ... LaTeX tabular(x) environment and Org tables
> have in common that they are plain text, but that’s where the
> similarities end. Org tables are visual (close to the WYSIWYG concept),
> which is why they are wonderful when it comes to mere data tables (and n
> files x n rows). The LaTeX tabular environment is crude, it is not
> 'visual' (except for the facilities provided by the editor), and when
> the table becomes large and complex it can be a torture working in
> there... So perhaps (IMHO) the solution to edit a cell in a dedicated
> buffer could be the least traumatic in complex cells, in case one wants
> to avoid going crazy by editing this kind of huge and literary tables in
> LaTeX ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-19 11:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-17 20:29 Syntax Proposal: Multi-line Table Cells/Text Wrapping Atlas Cove
2021-03-17 21:02 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2021-03-17 22:07 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-18 13:38 ` Atlas Cove
2021-03-18 14:04 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2021-03-18 15:15 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-18 14:19 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-03-18 14:26 ` Timothy
2021-03-18 14:31 ` Atlas Cove
2021-03-18 21:58 ` Tim Cross
2021-03-18 22:41 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-19 8:08 ` tomas
2021-03-19 8:44 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-19 8:53 ` tomas
2021-03-19 9:22 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-19 10:14 ` tomas
2021-03-19 10:53 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-19 11:08 ` Juan Manuel Macías [this message]
2021-03-19 13:43 ` tomas
2021-03-19 15:07 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-20 22:49 ` Samuel Wales
2021-03-21 8:43 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-19 2:27 ` Timothy
2021-03-19 3:50 ` Tim Cross
2021-03-19 4:02 ` Timothy
2021-03-19 13:33 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-03-19 21:33 ` Tim Cross
2021-03-20 9:19 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-03-20 10:40 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-20 13:41 ` Andreas Eder
2021-03-20 22:06 ` Tim Cross
2021-03-22 10:54 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-04-01 6:15 ` Tom Gillespie
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