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From: Michael Bach <phaebz@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: orgtbl multicolumn support
Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 22:05:25 +0300
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Michael Bach <phaebz@gmail.com> writes:

What kind of evil, sleep-deprived line of thoughts took me when I wrote
this?  Must have been too late for anything remotely meaningful.  This
one clearly did not deserve any answer...  Sorry for the noise

> Michael Bach <phaebz@gmail.com> writes:
>
> # edit
>
>> Dear org-mode Users and Developers,
>
>> I just wanted to know whether there are plans to support multicolumns in
>> default orgtbl-to-latex.  Something along these lines:
>>
>> #+ORGTBL: SEND multicol orgtbl-to-latex :splice t :skip 0 :hline "\\midrule"
>> |   | a | b           | c |
>> |---+---+-------------+---|
>> | 1 |   | mc(2)(c)(3) |   |
>> |   | 2 | mc(2)(c)(4) |   |
>>
>> Would produce
>>
>> % % BEGIN RECEIVE ORGTBL multicol
>>   & a & b & c\NN
>> \midrule
>> 1 &   & \multicolumn{2}{c}{3} & \NN
>>   & 2 & \multicolumn{2}{c}{4} & \LL
>> % END RECEIVE ORGTBL multicol
>
> # This should correctly read:
>
> % % BEGIN RECEIVE ORGTBL multicol
>   & a & b & c                 \\
> \midrule
> 1 &   & \multicolumn{2}{c}{3} \\
>   & 2 & \multicolumn{2}{c}{4} \\
> % END RECEIVE ORGTBL multicol
>
>> The reason being that I would like to use \multicolumn often in the
>> middle of an orgtbl.  My workarounds with manually inserting the LaTeX
>> macro are clumsy.
>>
>> I understood that users should write their own conversion functions.  If
>> I was going to try my fresh elisp fu, I wanted to ask here whether there
>> exists a generic orgtbl syntax to implement the above intercell
>> modification.  I read the doc for version 7.5 but maybe there are also
>> new methods in the dev version which I freshly use.
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>> Michael Bach