From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Lundin Subject: Re: word wrapping inside org table Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:26:48 -0600 Message-ID: <87vdsgh6wn.fsf@fastmail.fm> References: <1231940592318385.1056129401@mailgw2.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <000001c9765e$eecf5ba0$cc6e12e0$@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LNV61-00044i-QZ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:29:29 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LNV5x-00043O-C5 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:29:29 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36256 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LNV5x-00043I-7K for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:29:25 -0500 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:46009) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LNV5w-0002sS-Ud for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:29:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: <000001c9765e$eecf5ba0$cc6e12e0$@u-tokyo.ac.jp> (Yu Zhao's message of "Thu\, 15 Jan 2009 00\:44\:05 +0900") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Yu Zhao Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi Yu, "Yu Zhao" writes: > Is it possible to do word wrapping inside org table as MS Word did? I know > that one table mode can do this. (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TableMode) > I don't believe you can do word wrapping within a single field and still preserve the integrity of the field, since, as I understand it, a field in org-tbl is limited to a single line. But you can "wrap" a long field for the sake of appearance. For instance if you have the following table: ,---- | | | table | this is a long field with a lot of text that stretches on and on | | `---- You can select the text in the second column as a region and type C-u 5 M-RET, which will reformat the text to fill five rows. (Change the prefix argument to get more or fewer rows.) ,---- | | | table | this is a long | | | | field with a | | | | lot of text | | | | that stretches | | | | on and on | | `---- Your other option is to create narrow columns that hide the full text in a column. See this page of the manual: http://orgmode.org/manual/Narrow-columns.html#Narrow-columns Best, Matt