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* List-table feature (or a potential quick and easy mullti-lines table in org?)
@ 2011-03-17 11:04 Ben
  2011-03-17 11:16 ` Jambunathan K
  2011-03-17 15:41 ` Nicolas
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Ben @ 2011-03-17 11:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Dear Orgers,

I would have a question for you. I'm writing more and more documentation in
OrgMode (with HTML and DocBook exports) and I'm very happy with it. There's
a little hitch though on tables. Org tables are great with one known and
documented constraints: it does not accept multi lines [1].

In some types of documents it can be a challenge, however, editing large
columns could be a mess too.

I'm thinking about a potential alternative and I would like to know if
anyone here would know if this can be done with org.
ReStructured Text [2] has a nice feature called list-tables. As you can
guess from the name, you write a list and an instruction to process it and
it creates a table out of the list in the export target. See the ReST
documentation for a quick explanation [3]. What is does it to transform a
nested list in a simple table. And potentially it would make long list items
/ table content easy to edit.

Does anyone has heard of such a possibility in Org?

Many thanks to all!

  -- Ben


[1] http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#table-multiline-fields
[2] http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
[3] http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#list-table

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2011-03-17 22:18   ` Ben
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