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From: "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Wang Coeus <wangcoeus@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Can I input multiline in a cell?
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:07:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y65f99u9.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: AANLkTikUL_oKXRcJ4E8_pgKcHbP-2nyhzk2SW8jH7v2z@mail.gmail.com

suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Wang Coeus <wangcoeus@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Will org consider to support this in future? I just think org table is
>> more convenient than table.el. Thanks a lot for the help.
>
> As far as I know, its not likely. To my understanding, things like
> table formulae and some of the export functions have trouble dealing
> with it.

In many cases it is possible to "fake" multiline columns e.g.,

| first                  | second                                  |
|------------------------+-----------------------------------------|
| some text here which   |                                         |
| is so long I'd like    |                                         |
| it wrapped             |                                         |
|------------------------+-----------------------------------------|
| some shorter text here |                                         |
|------------------------+-----------------------------------------|
|                        | for simple display this works           |
|                        | although I agree the contents won't be  |
|                        | treated as a single cell by spreadsheet |
|                        | formula                                 |

FWIW the lack of multiline cells used to bother me about org-mode
tables, but now I hardly notice their absence, and don't know how I
would use them if they were (with some syntax) supported.

Best -- Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-16 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-15 21:10 Can I input multiline in a cell? Wang Coeus
2011-02-15 23:32 ` suvayu ali
2011-02-16  6:06   ` Wang Coeus
2011-02-16  9:42     ` Bastien
2011-02-16 17:48       ` brian powell
2011-02-16 18:03         ` brian powell
2011-02-16 18:43           ` Bastien
2011-02-16 19:03             ` brian powell
2011-02-16 20:01               ` Nick Dokos
2011-02-16 19:16             ` brian powell
2011-02-16 19:56               ` brian powell
2011-02-16 20:26                 ` Wang Coeus
2011-02-18  9:47                 ` Bastien
2011-02-18 15:09                   ` brian powell
     [not found]                     ` <8227.1298043065@alphaville>
2011-02-18 16:03                       ` brian powell
     [not found]                         ` <9775.1298046024@alphaville>
2011-02-18 16:38                           ` brian powell
2011-02-18 16:43                     ` Joost Kremers
2011-02-18 20:53                     ` suvayu ali
2011-02-16 20:20       ` Wang Coeus
2011-02-17 17:16         ` brian powell
2011-02-18  9:46         ` Bastien
2011-02-16 11:18     ` suvayu ali
2011-02-16 17:07       ` Eric Schulte [this message]
2011-02-16 17:24 ` brian powell

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