From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tak Ota Subject: Re: Re: row and col spaning in table? Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:24:00 -0700 Message-ID: <20100816.142400.137582176.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> References: <83bp9sqdec.fsf@yahoo.it> <62DFCAAE-CE93-460E-A4C2-8920029BD44B@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33129 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ol7dW-0005N7-KS for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:54:31 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ol7dV-00059a-0i for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:54:30 -0400 Received: from va3ehsobe006.messaging.microsoft.com ([216.32.180.16]:30486 helo=VA3EHSOBE006.bigfish.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ol7dU-00059Q-Ux for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:54:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <62DFCAAE-CE93-460E-A4C2-8920029BD44B@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: carsten.dominik@gmail.com Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, sp_us@yahoo.com Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:45:03 -0700: Carsten Dominik wrote: > > On Jul 28, 2010, at 8:28 PM, Srinivas wrote: > > > Giovanni Ridolfi yahoo.it> writes: > > > >> > >> David Hajage 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 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 > > >