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Subject: Re: Re: row and col spaning in table?
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On Jul 28, 2010, at 8:28 PM, Srinivas wrote:

> Giovanni Ridolfi <giovanni.ridolfi <at> yahoo.it> writes:
>
>>
>> David Hajage <dhajage <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> and I was wondering if row and col spaning was possible?
>> Currently not.
>> But, if this is your case, you should use the table.el package.
>>
>
> For some reason, I haven't been able to get table.el to work  
> properly during
> the org-mode publish operation.
>
> Carsten had mentioned that this functionality had been fixed in the  
> 6.36x
> builds but I still haven't been able to get it to work. I would like  
> to see a
> work example, if you have one.
>
> Here is my sample file:
>
> ---- begin snip
>
> * sample table
>
> + ------+--------+
> +-------+--------+
> |       | file   |
> +-------+--------+
> + ------+--------+
> |       |  file  |
> + ------+        |
> |  test |  test  |
> + ------+--------+

What is this table above supposed to mean?


> * Org mode table
>
> | Header 1 | Header 2 |
> |----------+----------|
> | R1 C1    | R1 C2    |
> | R2 C1    | R2 C2    |
> | R3 C1    | R3 C2    |

This org-mode table works fine.

>
> * table.el table
>
> Following table has 1 multi column cell and 1 multi row cell.
>
> +----------+----------+
> | Header 1 | Header 2 |
> +----------+----------+
> | R1 C1-2             |
> +---------------------+
> | R2 C1    | R2-3 C2  |
> +----------+----------+
> | R3 C1    |          |
> +----------+----------+

This starts an infinite loop when trying to convert it to HTML.
Org is simply calling the HTML converter in table.el, and that
code gets stuck.  So  I think this is a bug in table.el - please
contact the author of that package,

       Takaaki Ota <Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com>

And report back here!

Thanks!

- Carsten