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From: Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>
Subject: Re: Composing long tables
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 10:30:37 -0400
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Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> 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.

-pd