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From: Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Composing long tables
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:43:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <571E1F02.4010804@pfdstudio.com> (raw)

It seems that a lot of users would like to be able to create tables with 
multi-line cells in org-mode. Both HTML and LaTeX/PDF support this, so I 
think it would be very useful to have a way to do this in org-mode 
directly. One syntax that comes to mind would be to simply use a number 
of "|" characters at the start of a line/paragraph to indicate the column:

| This is column 1
|| This is column 2, which might consist of a very long paragraph (or 
even multiple paragraphs) would could automatically wrap when exporting 
to LaTeX/PDF or to HTML (or to other table-friendly formats.)
||| This is column 3,
|||| etc.

Admittedly this is not as readable as a table when editing in org-mode, 
but it seems intuitively clear, and would certainly make creating tables 
for export easier.

Just an idea. I'd welcome comments on this. (Note: I have nowhere near 
the knowledge of lisp or org-mode implementation to be able to do this.)

Thanks,
-pd

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Peter Davis
http://www.techcurmudgeon.com

             reply	other threads:[~2016-04-25 13:43 UTC|newest]

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2016-04-25 14:30 Composing long tables Peter Davis
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