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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Feature Request] Cross headings in tables
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:33:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87txp4nl6r.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 848BA974-1893-46B2-AA1E-E9837F1E6A0F@gmail.com

Carsten Dominik writes:
>> I think the cleanest way to implement this would be to _not_ modify Org
>> syntax, because it is export back-end very specific. Something like:
>> 
>>  #+attr_html: :header-groups (1 3)
>>  | This      | will      |
>>  | be        | a header  |
>>  |-----------+-----------|
>>  | This      | won't     |
>>  |-----------+-----------|
>>  | This will | be too    |
>>  |-----------+-----------|
>>  | This      | won't too |
>
> I really like this approach, to mark the header groups in an attribute
> - maybe an backend-independent attribute?

I can see the appeal from a programmers' point of view, but from a user
perspective this is extremely obscure, especially if that table spans a
few pages and has many such extra header rows (hey, why not ask the user
to write the table in XML to start with?).  In any case, the current way
of dealing with headers in org-element and the exporters doesn't admit
either.

>  The reason why I prefer this approach is that I am weary of new
> syntax in Org-mode that will take up new characters of character
> chains.  For the case of tables, if I could go back, I would even
> remove some of the syntax I introduced, for example for defining the
> values of constants - that should have been an attribute-link thing as
> well.  Probably even row and column naming, could have been done in
> this way.

Hindsight is 20/20. :-)

But going this route takes us even further from "Your life in plain
text." towards "Your life in another programming language." because you
will need a special viewer or editor to make sense of it for all but the
most trivial cases.


Regards,
Achim.
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-22 20:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-04 17:46 Quoting formula "cookies" in table? Achim Gratz
2010-10-05  1:25 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-05 17:10   ` Achim Gratz
2010-10-05 17:24     ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-06 17:37       ` Achim Gratz
2010-10-05 17:54 ` [Feature Request] Cross headings in tables Achim Gratz
2011-01-16 18:44   ` Achim Gratz
2011-02-02 12:30     ` Lawrence Mitchell
2011-02-02 20:49       ` Achim Gratz
2011-02-08 21:52         ` Achim Gratz
2011-03-20  9:16           ` Achim Gratz
2011-05-29 18:18           ` [Orgmode] " Carsten Dominik
2011-05-30 21:02             ` Achim Gratz
2011-05-31  7:21               ` Carsten Dominik
2011-05-31  8:07                 ` Lawrence Mitchell
2011-05-31 18:01                 ` Achim Gratz
2011-05-31 18:44                   ` Jambunathan K
2011-06-02 16:12                   ` Carsten Dominik
2011-06-07 19:42                 ` Achim Gratz
2013-02-16 19:21                   ` Achim Gratz
2013-02-17  8:35                     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-02-17 19:41                       ` Achim Gratz
2013-02-17 21:06                         ` Achim Gratz
2013-02-22 12:31                       ` Carsten Dominik
2013-02-22 20:33                         ` Achim Gratz [this message]
2013-02-22 20:59                           ` Carsten Dominik
2013-02-23  8:10                           ` Bastien
2013-02-23 12:26                       ` Achim Gratz

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