From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Davis Subject: Composing long tables Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:43:30 -0400 Message-ID: <571E1F02.4010804@pfdstudio.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60585) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1augna-0006Ds-2X for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:43:39 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1augnV-0005kn-02 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:43:38 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:50719) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1augnU-0005kS-SM for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:43:32 -0400 Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.internal [10.202.2.45]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id A570A28A3B for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:43:30 -0400 (EDT) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 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 -- ---- Peter Davis http://www.techcurmudgeon.com