From: Skip Collins <skip.collins@gmail.com>
To: "Tory S. Anderson" <torys.anderson@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-org list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 12:47:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABUh-74i2xURjEraYD2-Mbx25X=yOG1tiz2KV39Kt-V0t5gGtQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9tycbrq.fsf@gmail.com>
It might even be desirable to mix single and multi line cells in the
same row. That would introduce some restrictions on how single-line
cells are edited when they are in a row that contains multi-line
cells. I suppose they could be collapsed onto the first line in the
cell by replacing newlines with spaces. That would also have to be
handled carefully when converting a multi-line cell back to single
line.
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Tory S. Anderson
<torys.anderson@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think \ is overloaded for export purposes, but maybe / is clear? I think that's a good idea.
>
> Skip Collins <skip.collins@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> One more crazy idea. What if there were a choice of two vertical
>> separators? Currently '|' is the only character used for this purpose.
>> If, however, something like '\' were used to signal a multi-line cell,
>> then it would be possible to control this feature on a row-by-row
>> basis. As soon as the user replaces one of the '|' characters with
>> '\', all vertical separators in that row also change, converting all
>> of its cells to multi-line text. This has the advantage of being
>> backward compatible and not overloading the horizontal line separator.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-06 17:48 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
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 [this message]
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