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From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
Subject: Re: Python code for producing Org tables
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 14:12:17 +0100
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Hi François,

François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> I do not know, and should check indeed.  Yet, even then, it does not
> mean Org tables could not do better than standard practice! :-)

Would you like something like

| 3.1 |
| 3.1415 |

be aligned/modified as  

| 3.1000 |
| 3.1415 |

?

I personally wouldn't like this, but I'm curious.

>> If so, this is a nice Elisp challenge for anyone willing to
>> implement it :)
>
> I'd tackle it myself, yet if I do it before a few weeks, it'd mean I'm
> toying rather than doing what I should rather be doing...  Sigh!

Don't worry, once you'll dive into `org-table-align' chances are that
you will feel like "working" instead of "toying" :)

Bonnes fêtes !

-- 
 Bastien