From: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
To: Jens Schmidt <jschmidt4gnu@vodafonemail.de>
Cc: Org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Support for buffer-column-aligned tables in Org?
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 16:14:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJcAo8th-HnA6S9xLNS6m5hfSkN2Vmdf1A7EYkDcA9rkkDCXsA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJcAo8vVrQNWFsXg3LvyDnbAZx2Uiiwkk3ki+4cRS8YSJTTXhw@mail.gmail.com>
ignore the 2 spaces before width in row 2
On 10/25/23, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
> long shot but try align.el maybe? column -t or similar?
>
> ===
>
> fwiw a more advanced version: cells shouodb e presumed to be in their
> own columns even if missing.
>
> length 20 H width 20 depth 20
> length 2 width 20 depth 20
>
> i mainly want to compact these column tables by reducing extraneous
> whitespece beetween columns to the miimum whitespace necessary while
> retaining all columns.
>
> an org table would be itnerestig.
>
> i have long wondered if org tables could be converted into a minimal
> column-based ascii table such as yours, to preserve horizontal space.
>
>
> On 10/25/23, Jens Schmidt <jschmidt4gnu@vodafonemail.de> wrote:
>> Is there any kind of support (also by non-core extensions) for tables
>> in Org that are entirely organized along buffer columns? Some magic
>> (= clever heuristics) that recognizes the following as a table with
>> four columns, the first three left-aligned, the last right-aligned:
>>
>> <6> 1.0
>> 1 one some 10.0
>> 2 two boring 100.0
>> 3 This is a long text column 1000.0
>>
>> By "organized along buffer columns" I mean that basically any kind of
>> white-space should be allowed to align the columns in the buffer.
>>
>> By "any kind of support" I mean:
>>
>> - one-time conversion support to an Org table along the lines of C-c |
>>
>> - or edit/export support of such tables w/o the need to convert them
>> to an Org table first.
>>
>> I tried searching but failed to find search terms that are specific
>> enough to find anything useful.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>
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2023-10-25 19:14 Support for buffer-column-aligned tables in Org? Jens Schmidt
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