From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Feature Request] Cross headings in tables
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:59:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DC33939E-FCA4-40CC-AC2C-7E93D07BD9CE@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87txp4nl6r.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
On 22.2.2013, at 21:33, Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> wrote:
> Carsten Dominik writes:
>>> I think the cleanest way to implement this would be to _not_ modify Org
>>> syntax, because it is export back-end very specific. Something like:
>>>
>>> #+attr_html: :header-groups (1 3)
>>> | This | will |
>>> | be | a header |
>>> |-----------+-----------|
>>> | This | won't |
>>> |-----------+-----------|
>>> | This will | be too |
>>> |-----------+-----------|
>>> | This | won't too |
>>
>> I really like this approach, to mark the header groups in an attribute
>> - maybe an backend-independent attribute?
>
> I can see the appeal from a programmers' point of view, but from a user
> perspective this is extremely obscure, especially if that table spans a
> few pages and has many such extra header rows (hey, why not ask the user
> to write the table in XML to start with?). In any case, the current way
> of dealing with headers in org-element and the exporters doesn't admit
> either.
>
>> The reason why I prefer this approach is that I am weary of new
>> syntax in Org-mode that will take up new characters of character
>> chains. For the case of tables, if I could go back, I would even
>> remove some of the syntax I introduced, for example for defining the
>> values of constants - that should have been an attribute-link thing as
>> well. Probably even row and column naming, could have been done in
>> this way.
>
> Hindsight is 20/20. :-)
>
> But going this route takes us even further from "Your life in plain
> text." towards "Your life in another programming language." because you
> will need a special viewer or editor to make sense of it for all but the
> most trivial cases.
Point taken.
- Carsten
>
>
> Regards,
> Achim.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-22 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-04 17:46 Quoting formula "cookies" in table? Achim Gratz
2010-10-05 1:25 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-05 17:10 ` Achim Gratz
2010-10-05 17:24 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-06 17:37 ` Achim Gratz
2010-10-05 17:54 ` [Feature Request] Cross headings in tables Achim Gratz
2011-01-16 18:44 ` Achim Gratz
2011-02-02 12:30 ` Lawrence Mitchell
2011-02-02 20:49 ` Achim Gratz
2011-02-08 21:52 ` Achim Gratz
2011-03-20 9:16 ` Achim Gratz
2011-05-29 18:18 ` [Orgmode] " Carsten Dominik
2011-05-30 21:02 ` Achim Gratz
2011-05-31 7:21 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-05-31 8:07 ` Lawrence Mitchell
2011-05-31 18:01 ` Achim Gratz
2011-05-31 18:44 ` Jambunathan K
2011-06-02 16:12 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-06-07 19:42 ` Achim Gratz
2013-02-16 19:21 ` Achim Gratz
2013-02-17 8:35 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-02-17 19:41 ` Achim Gratz
2013-02-17 21:06 ` Achim Gratz
2013-02-22 12:31 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-02-22 20:33 ` Achim Gratz
2013-02-22 20:59 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2013-02-23 8:10 ` Bastien
2013-02-23 12:26 ` Achim Gratz
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