Re: org-capture-template: table lines including newline of sorts

[Charles Millar <millarc@verizon.net>]

Hi,

On 3/14/21 1:00 PM, TRS-80 wrote:
> On 2021-03-13 02:24, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Currently I have the following setting for one org-capture-template:
>>
>>
>> ("mu" "Stat+Num:Exercises English"
>> table-line (file+headline "~/Somefile.org" "Exercise Group-E")
>> "| %:fromname|%:fromaddress |
>> %(my-extract-cc)|%^{Sheet|1|2|3|4|5|6}|%^{Exercise|1|} |  %a|%:date |
>> "  :prepend t
>> )
>>
>> That line is too long, I'd like something like this
>> ("mu" "Stat+Num:Exercises English"
>> table-line (file+headline "~/Somefile.org" "Exercise Group-E")
>> "| %:fromname|%:fromaddress\n
>> %(my-extract-cc)|%^{Sheet|1|2|3|4|5|6}|%^{Exercise|1|} |  %a|%:date |
>> "  :prepend t
>> )
>>
>> Or
>>
>> ("mu" "Stat+Num:Exercises English"
>> table-line (file+headline "~/Somefile.org" "Exercise Group-E")
>> "| %:fromname|%:fromaddress\n
>> %(my-extract-cc)|%^{Sheet|1|2|3|4|5|6}|%^{Exercise|1|} |  %a|%:date |
>> "  :prepend t
>> "|   | %(my-extract-cc) |   |   |   |   |   |   |    |  |   |   |    |
>>        | "  :prepend t
>> )
>>
>>
>> But nothing worked, any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks and regards
>>
>> Uwe Brauer
> 
> Do you need to add more pipes to keep the table structure on the line
> after the newline?
> 
> Cheers,
> TRS-80
> 
You may have to escape the pipes. I did that in a similar capture template.

Charlie Millar