From: Skip Collins <skip.collins@gmail.com>
To: "Tory S. Anderson" <torys.anderson@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 12:31:24 -0500 [thread overview]
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Yes, it would be incompatible. But there could be a mechanism to enable the
multi-line mode on a per-table basis. For display and grouping purposes,
horizontal lines could still be allowed by adding two consecutive lines:
|-------------------------------------+-----|
|-------------------------------------+-----|
Or another character could be used for the line separator:
|=====================================+=====|
2015-03-05 11:56 GMT-05:00 Tory S. Anderson <torys.anderson@gmail.com>:
>
> Not a bad idea, but this would be incompatible with the existing useof
horizontal lines to separate sections and export to visual lines, right?
>
> Skip Collins <skip.collins@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Here's another suggestion. There could be an optional org table mode
> > in which horizontal lines are used to separate rows:
> >
> > | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, | foo |
> > | consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed | |
> > | sit amet luctus sapien. Phasellus | |
> > | malesuada, ipsum et hendrerit | |
> > | mattis, neque neque sodales risus, | |
> > | hendrerit consectetur enim ipsum eu | |
> > | felis. | |
> > |-------------------------------------+-----|
> > | Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in | bar |
> > | faucibus orci luctus et ultrices | |
> > | posuere cubilia Curae; Nulla dictum | |
> > | iaculis sodales. Sed elementum | |
> > | semper leo, venenatis lacinia odio | |
> > | eleifend vitae. Aliquam lectus | |
> > | felis, tempor nec lacus ut, | |
> > | consequat tincidunt nisl. | |
> > |-------------------------------------+-----|
> > | Fusce eu nunc sit amet orci | baz |
> > | lobortis accumsan. Vivamus laoreet | |
> > | ante pellentesque, scelerisque | |
> > | tellus nec, ultrices nibh. Etiam | |
> > | scelerisque lobortis erat, in | |
> > | consectetur nisi tincidunt a. Duis | |
> > | eu est elit. Pellentesque fringilla | |
> > | gravida ligula, non convallis | |
> > | ligula viverra sollicitudin. | |
> >
> > Perhaps adding the required machinery to allow in-cell paragraph
> > filling would not be too difficult?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-05 17:31 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 [this message]
[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
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