Composing long tables

[Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>]

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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