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* Feature request: HTML table formatting
@ 2007-04-11 23:17 Daniel J. Sinder
  2007-04-12 11:20 ` Carsten Dominik
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Daniel J. Sinder @ 2007-04-11 23:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

Generally, I like the latest incarnation of HTML table formatting,
in particular because I can control the presence of horizontal
lines.  But, now I'm spoiled and would like to do the same for
vertical lines -- on a table-by-table basis.  With the rules=groups
attribute (already the default with org-mode), this can be
accomplished in HTML using the COLGROUP element.

What about a new column delimiter (e.g., '!') to indicate column
groups in addition to columns?  My hope is to have something like
the following be possible:

!        !  Col A  |  Col B  |  Col C !
!--------!---------|---------|--------!
!  Row 1 !    A1   |   B1    |   C1   !
!  Row 2 !    A2   |   B2    |   C2   !
!--------!---------|---------|--------!

The '!' lines would appear in the HTML rendering, while the "|"
lines would not.  Or, as an ASCII export:
|-------+---------+---------+--------|
|       | Col A   | Col B   | Col C  |
|-------+---------+---------+--------|
| Row 1 | A1        B1        C1     |
| Row 2 | A2        B2        C2     |
|-------+----------------------------|


Dan

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* Re: Feature request: HTML table formatting
@ 2007-04-29  1:51 Scott Otterson
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Scott Otterson @ 2007-04-29  1:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Emacs-orgmode

I'll agree with Daniel that sometimes, it's useful to have vertical 
table separators.  Here's how I kind-of do it:

| asdlfj |   | alsjfdas |
|--------+---+----------|
| alsdjf |   | aqsljf   |
| asdljf |   | asldjf   |

This is visible enough inside of org-mode and it yields a widish gap in 
exported html -- it's a horizontal screen space waster, though.  I 
suppose one way to denote a vertical separator without adding an extra 
symbol would be to allow tables in org-mode that look like this:

| asdlfj || alsjfdas |
|--------++----------|
| alsdjf || aqsljf   |
| asdljf || asldjf   |

The exporter could then detect '||' and convert it to a vertical html line.

Scott
> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 06:23:16 +0200
> From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
>
> On Apr 12, 2007, at 20:48, Daniel J. Sinder wrote:
>   
>> >
>> > I think rejecting vertical rules as a matter of style is a mistake.
>> >  Whether you consider org-mode tables to be a markup or a
>> > spreadsheet, it's peers -- HTML, LaTeX, Gnumeric, Excel, etc. --
>> > will all produce tables with vertical rules if asked to do so.  I'm
>> > wary of tools that enforce style.  I'd prefer to read the style
>> > guide and then decide for myself (that is, use it as a *guide* not
>> > an edict).
>>     
>
> Fair enough.
>   
>> > However, if vertical rules are too clunky, difficult,
>> > time-consuming, or low priority to implement, that's an entirely
>> > different matter that I can fully understand.
>>     
>
> As I said, I don't want to have a special separator for this,
> implementation would be very cumbersome and I'd like
> to be able to have ! as a character in a table field.
> Maybe something like a special #+FORMAT line above the table
> to set special formatting directives.
>
> - Carsten

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