Re: Re: row and col spaning in table?

[Tak Ota <Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com>]

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:45:03 -0700: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On Jul 28, 2010, at 8:28 PM, Srinivas wrote:
> 
> > Giovanni Ridolfi <giovanni.ridolfi <at> yahoo.it> writes:
> >
> >>
> >> David Hajage <dhajage <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >>> and I was wondering if row and col spaning was possible?
> >> Currently not.
> >> But, if this is your case, you should use the table.el package.
> >>
> >
> > For some reason, I haven't been able to get table.el to work  
> > properly during
> > the org-mode publish operation.
> >
> > Carsten had mentioned that this functionality had been fixed in the  
> > 6.36x
> > builds but I still haven't been able to get it to work. I would like  
> > to see a
> > work example, if you have one.
> >
> > Here is my sample file:
> >
> > ---- begin snip
> >
> > * sample table
> >
> > + ------+--------+
> > +-------+--------+
> > |       | file   |
> > +-------+--------+
> > + ------+--------+
> > |       |  file  |
> > + ------+        |
> > |  test |  test  |
> > + ------+--------+
> 
> What is this table above supposed to mean?
> 
> 
> > * Org mode table
> >
> > | Header 1 | Header 2 |
> > |----------+----------|
> > | R1 C1    | R1 C2    |
> > | R2 C1    | R2 C2    |
> > | R3 C1    | R3 C2    |
> 
> This org-mode table works fine.
> 
> >
> > * table.el table
> >
> > Following table has 1 multi column cell and 1 multi row cell.
> >
> > +----------+----------+
> > | Header 1 | Header 2 |
> > +----------+----------+
> > | R1 C1-2             |
> > +---------------------+
> > | R2 C1    | R2-3 C2  |
> > +----------+----------+
> > | R3 C1    |          |
> > +----------+----------+
> 
> This starts an infinite loop when trying to convert it to HTML.
> Org is simply calling the HTML converter in table.el, and that
> code gets stuck.  So  I think this is a bug in table.el - please
> contact the author of that package,
> 
>        Takaaki Ota <Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com>

The above table is illegal from the table.el definition point of view.
The three way intersection between the cells "R1 C1-2", "R2 C1" and
"R2-3 C2" must be a '+' instead of a '-'.  I admit the current
implementation is inferior as it gets into infinite loop instead of
reporting this error.

-Tak

> 
> And report back here!
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> - Carsten
> 
> 
>