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From: "Charles C. Berry" <ccberry@ucsd.edu>
To: Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells?
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 10:08:13 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1503030951170.533@charles-berrys-macbook.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1503021507580.1069@charles-berrys-macbook.local>

On Mon, 2 Mar 2015, Charles C. Berry wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Mar 2015, Matt Price wrote:
>
>> I have a project which will require me to enter about a paragraph in each
>> of 5 fields several times a day. I would use org tables, but I need to be
>> able to see the table contents in the buffer, and org hides long lines. I
>> tried using table.el but it feels incredibly clumsy - for instance, I can't
>> find a way to add a row to the end of the table, which seems crazy.
>> 
>> I am wondering  what other people do in this situation - I guess I could
>> use a spreadsheet or an odt document but I would much rather stay in emacs
>> if I can.
>
> I sometimes use babel blocks for this purpose.
>

But I did not give an example of filling in a table using that
strategy.

So here is an example of how you would use that strategy to fill out a
table with fields that get edited. Obviously, you can use the string
resulting from org-fill-template in other ways than in the example
below.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---

* Not exported							   :noexport:

Define a table template (and put it out of the way in a subtree that
is not exported)

#+name: tmplt
#+BEGIN_SRC org
   | Never change me | %a                    |
   | %b              | Dont modify me either |
#+END_SRC

Define the fill-in cells and be sure they are not exported:

#+name: pcta
#+BEGIN_SRC org
this is ~a~.
#+END_SRC

#+name: pctb
#+BEGIN_SRC org
this is *b*.
#+END_SRC


* This gets exported

#+HEADER: :var a=pcta() :var b=pctb() :var tm=tmplt() 
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :wrap latex :exports results
   (org-export-string-as
    (org-fill-template tm `(("a" . ,a)("b" . ,b)))
    'latex t)
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS:
#+BEGIN_latex
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{ll}
Never change me & this is \verb~a~.\\
this is \textbf{b}. & Dont modify me either\\
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
#+END_latex

--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

HTH,

Chuck

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2015-03-03 18:08 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 [this message]
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
     [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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