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From: Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>
To: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>, Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: org->odt/html table export: adjusting default behaviour?
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:36:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN_Dec_9vBGGE3PynFd8Lv0TVJj1mfPhyVDvsGHKiaBtLP_qzA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN_Dec-8SB9Ht3iWndTArUSVn5S2+usAY-Uoeon0matT=U6DOA@mail.gmail.com>

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this time I've actually attached the file...

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:
> The attached test file shows  an org file with tables whose columns
> include substantial amounts of text.  The default export to odt is
> pretty ugly in this case, and even in html (where things work to some
> extent) I would rather be able to control to some extent the way that
> long fields wrap.  is there a recommended way to do set values like
> table and column width for these two exports? I guess I am
> particularly concerned with the odt export -- can I e.g. adjust a
> default value somewhere in the styles.xml file? I doubt the problem
> will be easily solved but if someone can point me in the right
> direction I'd really appreciate it.
>
> thanks,
> Matt
>

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#+TITLE:     test.org
#+AUTHOR:    Matt Price
#+EMAIL:     matt.price@utoronto.ca
#+DATE:      2011-08-23 Tue
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#+KEYWORDS:
#+LANGUAGE:  en
#+OPTIONS:   H:3 num:nil toc:nil \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:t -:t f:t *:t <:t
#+OPTIONS:   TeX:t LaTeX:t skip:nil d:nil todo:t pri:nil tags:not-in-toc
#+INFOJS_OPT: view:nil toc:nil ltoc:t mouse:underline buttons:0 path:http://orgmode.org/org-info.js
#+EXPORT_SELECT_TAGS: export
#+EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS: noexport
#+LINK_UP:   
#+LINK_HOME: 
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* heading1

** heading2
| table | 1 | 2 |
|       |   |   |
** heading2 -2
some text.
* Outline

| Week | Date       | Topic                          | Description                         | Tech Topics               | Assignments               | Readings | Notes                               |
|------+------------+--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+----------+-------------------------------------|
|      |            | <30>                           | <35>                                | <25>                      | <25>                      |          | <35>                                |
|    1 | 9/12/2011  | Intro:What is History For?     | The uses of history; engagement and objectivity; etc | Intro to Website          | --                        |          |                                     |
|    2 | 9/19/2011  | History and the Public Sphere  | "What is the Public Sphere, & what role does history play in it?" | HTML Workshop             |                           |          |                                     |
|    3 | 9/26/2011  | What is the Canadian Public Sphere | "Multiculturalism, Immigration, and National Identity as questions of mediality" |                           |                           |          |                                     |
|    4 | 10/3/2011  | History From Below             | "History from below,' oral history, & implications for the practice of history" | Audio Workshop            | Oral History Interview    |          |                                     |
|    6 | 10/10/2011 | Th Wisdom of the Crowd?        | "Crowdsourcing, Wikipedia, Citizen Science & Collaborative history" | Collective Bibliographies | Zotero Assignment         |          | Transcription of Interview          |
|    5 | 10/17/2011 | Language of The Web            | From Memex to HTML5; the Web as a Utopian project | google maps/jsbin workshop? maybe not. |                           |          | Visits to Archive                   |
|    7 | 10/24/2011 | Engaged History                |                                     |                           |                           |          | Background Research                 |
|    8 | 10/31/2011 | Recursive Publics              | Open Source/Open Access/Open standards | Timelines                 | Timeline Assignment -- needs a lab |          | Open Access Week. Peer review of audio stories. |
|    9 | 11/7/2011  | Information Abundance          |                                     |                           |                           |          |                                     |
|   10 | 11/14/2011 | Thinking with Pictures         | Maps and the visual Representation of Information | GIS                       | GIS Assignment            |          |                                     |
|   11 | 11/21/2011 | Making Sense of copyright      |                                     |                           |                           |          |                                     |
|   12 | 11/28/2011 | Digital Divides                |                                     |                           |                           |          |                                     |
|   13 | 12/5/2011  | Review                         |                                     |                           | Final Assignment          |          |                                     |
|      |            | Authorship                     |                                     |                           |                           |          |                                     |
|      |            |                                |                                     |                           |                           |          |                                     |

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-25 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-25 15:12 org->odt/html table export: adjusting default behaviour? Matt Price
2011-08-25 15:36 ` Matt Price [this message]
2011-08-25 21:40 ` Jambunathan K
2011-08-26 14:24   ` Matt Price
2011-08-28 22:33     ` Jambunathan K
2011-08-28 22:40       ` [PATCH 1/2] Parse and store both col align and col width spec for later use Jambunathan K
2011-08-28 22:41       ` [PATCH 2/2] org-odt.el: Put table style and col sizes under direct user control Jambunathan K
2011-09-14  9:56   ` [odt] Support for table templates (was Re: org->odt/html table export: adjusting default behaviour?) Jambunathan K
2011-08-25 22:01 ` org->odt/html table export: adjusting default behaviour? Jambunathan K
2011-08-26 14:13   ` Matt Price

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