From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Davis Subject: Re: Composing long tables Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 10:33:33 -0400 Message-ID: <6sw6c7d1pdahc2.fsf@pfdstudio.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39752) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1auha0-0004dY-3K for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2016 10:33:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1auhZu-0005Pu-53 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2016 10:33:40 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:53525) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1auhZu-0005Ph-2V for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2016 10:33:34 -0400 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id B65D92082D for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2016 10:33:33 -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 Peter Davis writes: > Peter Davis writes: > >> 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.) > > > I think Thunderbird put in those extra "|" on the column 2 item. It should have been: > > | 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. > Well crap, Gnus did the same thing. What I intended was that the entire "This is column 2 ... other table-friendly formats.)" be on one line, with no hard breaks. -pd