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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org table proposal: merge and split cells in org-tables
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 09:25:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87leoxoe75.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y15AI5nJI62bVM8e@protected.localdomain>

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> To solve that problem personally, I use Asciidoctor, see how it is
> done there:
>
> Example 76. Table with formatted, aligned and merged cells:
> https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/syntax-quick-reference/#ex-cell-format

I am sorry, but this looks unreadable. I would avoid re-using such
syntax ideas.

> Org has Babel, for purposes of HTML output, Org file could use Bable
> to get HTML return from Babel containing Asciidoc and embed it in Org
> HTML.

Sure. And we do use pretty much the same approach to export table.el
tables, which are supported by Org natively (up to a limit). But this
proposal is about bringing cell merging into native Org tables.

-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-30  9:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-29 16:53 org table proposal: merge and split cells in org-tables Uwe Brauer
2022-10-30  3:54 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-10-30  7:22   ` Uwe Brauer
2022-10-30  9:13 ` Jean Louis
2022-10-30  9:25   ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2022-10-31  5:56     ` Jean Louis
2022-10-31  8:50       ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-10-30  9:13 ` Timothy
2022-11-04  7:38 ` Max Nikulin
2022-11-05  5:44   ` Ihor Radchenko
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-10-30  8:23 Mati
2022-10-30  8:35 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-10-30  8:47   ` Timothy
2022-10-30  8:56     ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-10-30  9:08       ` Timothy

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