From: torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson)
To: "Charles C. Berry" <ccberry@ucsd.edu>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 14:19:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oao9oplu.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1503030951170.533@charles-berrys-macbook.local> (Charles C. Berry's message of "Tue, 3 Mar 2015 10:08:13 -0800")
It's not a perfect solution (many of us have wished for some way of doing multi-line cells in orgmode, but there's no clear solution...) but I use a combination of width restraints[1] and toggle-truncate-lines, which I've bound to <F5>. If it comes to the worst, I would probably pull out csv-mode and use a CSV file. I think the problem is that there's no simple way to wrap within just a cell in Emacs.
"Charles C. Berry" <ccberry@ucsd.edu> writes:
> On Mon, 2 Mar 2015, Charles C. Berry wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2 Mar 2015, Matt Price wrote:
>>
>>> I have a project which will require me to enter about a paragraph in each
>>> of 5 fields several times a day. I would use org tables, but I need to be
>>> able to see the table contents in the buffer, and org hides long lines. I
>>> tried using table.el but it feels incredibly clumsy - for instance, I can't
>>> find a way to add a row to the end of the table, which seems crazy.
>>>
>>> I am wondering what other people do in this situation - I guess I could
>>> use a spreadsheet or an odt document but I would much rather stay in emacs
>>> if I can.
>>
>> I sometimes use babel blocks for this purpose.
>>
>
> But I did not give an example of filling in a table using that
> strategy.
>
> So here is an example of how you would use that strategy to fill out a
> table with fields that get edited. Obviously, you can use the string
> resulting from org-fill-template in other ways than in the example
> below.
>
>
> * Not exported :noexport:
>
> Define a table template (and put it out of the way in a subtree that
> is not exported)
>
> #+name: tmplt
> #+BEGIN_SRC org
> | Never change me | %a |
> | %b | Dont modify me either |
> #+END_SRC
>
> Define the fill-in cells and be sure they are not exported:
>
> #+name: pcta
> #+BEGIN_SRC org
> this is ~a~.
> #+END_SRC
>
> #+name: pctb
> #+BEGIN_SRC org
> this is *b*.
> #+END_SRC
>
>
> * This gets exported
>
> #+HEADER: :var a=pcta() :var b=pctb() :var tm=tmplt()
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :wrap latex :exports results
> (org-export-string-as
> (org-fill-template tm `(("a" . ,a)("b" . ,b)))
> 'latex t)
> #+END_SRC
>
> #+RESULTS:
> #+BEGIN_latex
> \begin{center}
> \begin{tabular}{ll}
> Never change me & this is \verb~a~.\\
> this is \textbf{b}. & Dont modify me either\\
> \end{tabular}
> \end{center}
> #+END_latex
>
> HTH,
>
> Chuck
Footnotes:
[1] http://orgmode.org/manual/Column-width-and-alignment.html#Column-width-and-alignment
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-03 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-02 21:12 What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells? Matt Price
2015-03-02 21:25 ` Rasmus
2015-03-02 23:16 ` Charles C. Berry
2015-03-03 18:08 ` Charles C. Berry
2015-03-03 19:19 ` Tory S. Anderson [this message]
2015-03-05 15:13 ` Jude DaShiell
2015-03-05 16:28 ` Skip Collins
2015-03-05 16:56 ` Tory S. Anderson
2015-03-05 17:31 ` Skip Collins
[not found] ` <CAN_Dec8Tt2w4KarPXk0fW2F9GXXczYNBuRkzQpirk83dDgv=SQ@mail.gmail.com>
2015-03-06 16:34 ` Skip Collins
2015-03-06 16:48 ` Tory S. Anderson
2015-03-06 17:47 ` Skip Collins
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