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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Org+table.el = mutli line cells?
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 06:37:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DADF4057-6820-42DB-A965-86F30F26D0E0@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTill5zo1j28Ch2IZYxOgKjuQ8h6uuGTsY1ufft0-@mail.gmail.com>


On Jul 1, 2010, at 10:14 PM, John Hendy wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> I export to variable page widths and would like to be able to  
> specify a limit on my tables which seem to always run on as long as  
> they need to without regard for any margins or borders. I found a  
> post here where a user asked the question I was looking for: http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg22353.html
>
> So... table.el (as I have since found during fiddling) does create  
> multi-line cells, which is awesome.
>
> I can't find any documentation for it, though?? I am just looking  
> for [hopefully] basic/easy things like:
>
> - bold a cell (*word* doesn't seem to work in table.el tables)
> - limit the overall width of the table

Formatting inside table.el cells does not work because this is a  
completely
different export mechanism.

To fix the width of a table (normal Org-mode table), see

http://orgmode.org/manual/Tables-in-HTML-export.html#Tables-in-HTML-export

- Carsten

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-02  4:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-01 20:14 Org+table.el = mutli line cells? John Hendy
2010-07-02  4:37 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-07-02 14:54   ` John Hendy
2010-07-06  8:41     ` Carsten Dominik
2010-07-06 14:08       ` John Hendy

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