From: mcg <giepen.m@googlemail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Help with fixing an org-mode multicolumn implementation - LaTeX special characters
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:33:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56CEE681.3050807@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9h0hhk6.fsf@gmail.com>
Hello Aaron,
[I noticed I did not answer to the list; just writing again to add it to
the list]
this fix works perfect! Thank you very much.
Never mind about multirow...
Michael
On 22/02/16 16:48, Aaron Ecay wrote:
> Hi mcg,
>
> 2016ko otsailak 21an, mcg-ek idatzi zuen:
>> I found a very nice implementation of LaTeX multicolumn functionality in
>> this thread:
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2013-02/msg00736.html
> [...]
>
>> However, using any of the characters of the left column of my example
>> table in the merged <2colc> column, I get:
>> "setq: Invalid use of `\' in replacement text"
> I think the function should be written (untested):
>
> (defun my-latex-multicolumn-filter (row backend info)
> (when (org-export-derived-backend-p backend 'latex)
> (while (string-match "\\(<\\([0-9]+\\)col\\([lrc]\\)?>[[:blank:]]*\\([^&]+\\)\\)" row)
> (let ((columns (string-to-number (match-string 2 row)))
> (start (match-end 0))
> (contents (replace-regexp-in-string "[[:blank:]]*$" "" (match-string 4 row)))
> (algn (or (match-string 3 row) "l")))
> (setq row (replace-match
> (format "\\multicolumn{%d}{%s}{%s}" columns algn contents)
> nil t row 1))
> (while (and (> columns 1) (string-match "&" row start))
> (setq row (replace-match "" nil nil row))
> (decf columns))))
> row))
>
> The change is setting the third argument (‘literal’) to ‘replace-match’
> to t, and deleting an extra backslash in the "\\multicolumn..." string.
>
>>
>> Questions:
>> - How to escape the special characters in the left column properly to be
>> able to use them? (tried everything I could think of)
>> or
>> - How to modify the code above so that it allows for such characters.
>>
>> - If anyone likes the implementation and is more capable than I am, then
>> the same for multirow would be really nice...
> Unfortunately I think that’s more complicated, since it would necessitate
> examining/modifying the whole table in one go, rather than operating one
> row at a time.
>
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2016-02-21 10:28 Help with fixing an org-mode multicolumn implementation - LaTeX special characters mcg
2016-02-22 15:48 ` Aaron Ecay
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