From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Sebastien Vauban" Subject: Re: making coloured tables Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:30:19 +0200 Message-ID: <80zkjzlb50.fsf@somewhere.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: 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-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Hi Andras, Andras Major wrote: > I'm really intrigued by org-mode's table and spreadsheet functionality > and would like to use it for those cases where I found excel and > gnumeric impractically cumbersome. > > What I want are two slightly diffent things: > > - Make tables that have cells with individual background colours when > exported as HTML or PDF. > > - Make tables that have cells with background colours and typeface > details (bold, italic, etc.) based on contents of either the cells > themselves or other cells in the table. (Example: mark all negative > numerical values of a table with a red background.) > > Furthermore, the colouring should be portable, i.e. independent of the > settings in .emacs. I add wishes on the above list. Maybe someone will be able to implement them, if they seem to make sense... So, here's my idea: having some automagic style (background) applied on the cells to distinguish: - the input cells (the ones you cannot delete... without troubles): they don't have any formula associated with them - the final result cells: the ones with computed results - the other ones, whose content is computed, but serves as input to other cells. Would these be in different colors, I think it would make the reading of tables much more efficient. And, as far as I know, this does not exist yet in tools like Excel -- though people can manually apply such color conventions. Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban