From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Michael Brand <michael.brand@alumni.ethz.ch>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: spreadsheet: column width behavior(s)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:53:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1E0F2C3A-5F85-42BA-9232-3CB3DE4CDAFB@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BABBF44.5020803@alumni.ethz.ch>
On Mar 25, 2010, at 8:53 PM, Michael Brand wrote:
> Hi Carsten, hi all
>
> Are there reasons to only narrow but not to widen columns?
I think this is really the only thing that makes sense. Why would
you want it any wider, given the limited amount of screen real
estate we have here? I don't think it would be difficult to make
it behave the way you request, but I don't think I would ever
use widening fields. When would you want to use this?
- Carsten
>
> I would like the behavior `fixed width' like
>
> | year | boss | facility management
> assistant |
> | | <30> |
> <30> |
> |------+-------------------------------
> +--------------------------------|
> | 2009 | Alice |
> Bob |
>
> but with the current implementation get
>
> | year | boss | facility management assistant |
> | | <30> | <30> |
> |------+-------+-------------------------------|
> | 2009 | Alice | Bob |
>
> which widens the column only if there is too less space left for the
> column content.
>
> As a comparison I can imagine four variants:
> <..40> : `maximum width' (what <40> is today)
> <30> : `fixed width'
> <20..> : `minimum width' (no narrowing)
> <20..40> : `width range' (minimum 20, up to 40, narrowing if even
> longer)
>
> The most commonly used spreadsheet applications offer just one
> single variant out of the above four (right?) and it is `fixed
> width'. My vote for org-table would be the same: That it should
> support `fixed width' and that this is sufficient as the only
> variant. What is the opinion of other users?
>
> - Michael
>
>
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- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-26 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-25 19:53 spreadsheet: column width behavior(s) Michael Brand
2010-03-26 20:53 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-03-27 13:11 ` Michael Brand
2010-03-27 15:15 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-03-27 17:15 ` Michael Brand
2010-03-27 17:27 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-03-27 18:05 ` Samuel Wales
2010-03-28 12:40 ` Carsten Dominik
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