Your welcome Wang, my pleasure--I learned a few things too.
I used to make tables like the one you seem to be trying to put into and use in an OrgMode Table.
Your table:
|-------+-------+----------------|
| | HEAD2 | Item 1 |
| +-------+----------------|
| HEAD1 | | Item 2 |
| + HEAD3 |----------------|
| | | Item 3 |
|-------+-------+----------------|
* Reminds me of SAS multivariate statistics output and the "PROC TABULATE" method:
** See these:
** Program example output:
Energy Expenditures for Each Region 1
(millions of dollars)
---------------------------------------------------
| | Type |
| |-------------------------|
| |Residential | Business |
| | Customers | Customers |
| |------------+------------|
| |Expenditures|Expenditures|
| |------------+------------|
| | Sum | Sum |
|-----------------------+------------+------------|
|Region |Division | | |
|-----------+-----------| | |
|Northeast |New England| $7,477| $5,129|
| |-----------+------------+------------|
| |Middle | | |
| |Atlantic | $19,379| $15,078|
|-----------+-----------+------------+------------|
|West |Mountain | $5,476| $4,729|
| |-----------+------------+------------|
| |Pacific | $13,959| $12,619|
---------------------------------------------------
** You may be able to go from .txt/csv <=> EXCEL <=> SAS <=> .pdf/.ps
*Also, not sure you know about this extremely useful method that may help you get fancy graphics:
Use "ditaa"!
...
#+begin_src ditaa :file communication.png :cmdline -r -s 0.8
+-----------+ +---------+
| PLC | | |
| Network +<------>+ PLC +<---=---------+
| cRED | | c707 | |
+-----------+ +----+----+ |
^ |
| |
| +----------------|-----------------+
| | | |
v v v v
+----------+ +----+--+--+ +-------+---+ +-----+-----+ Windows clients
| | | | | | | | +----+ +----+
| Database +<----->+ Shared +<---->+ Executive +<-=-->+ Operator +<---->|cYEL| . . .|cYEL|
| c707 | | Memory | | c707 | | Server | | | | |
+--+----+--+ |{d} cGRE | +------+----+ | c707 | +----+ +----+
^ ^ +----------+ ^ +-------+---+
| | |
| +--------=--------------------------+
v
+--------+--------+
| |
| Millwide System | -------- Data ---------
| cBLU | --=----- Signals ---=--
+-----------------+
#+end_src
* Maybe make two or three separate tables--and maybe separate with whitespace--with only one "real" OrgMode table that you do spreadsheet formula calcs, etc. in:
|--------+-----| -------+-------+
| Item 1 | 4 | | TAIL2 |
|--------+-----| |-------+
| Item 2 | 555 | TAIL1 | |
|--------+-----| | TAIL3 |
| Item 3 | 559 | | |
|--------+-----| -------+-------+
#+TBLFM: @3$2=@1$2+@2$2
** But when I recalculate OrgTable pushes the tables back together.
** Maybe make two tables and use the UNIX "paste" command to paste them together.
*** Maybe then use the TeX "\verbatim".
*Tried putting in "^H"==backspaces:
|--------+-----| ^H-------+-------+
| Item 1 | 4 | ^H | HEAD2 |
|--------+-----| ^H |-------+
| Item 2 | 555 | ^H HEAD1 | |
|--------+-----| ^H | HEAD3 |
| Item 3 | 559 | ^H | |
|--------+-----| ^H-------+-------+
** Then you could print it out of a program and it would look like one table; but, again, CuCcCc --recalculation glued the table back together--in an ugly way.
*** Maybe suggest making "^H" (the backspace character) a character that OrgTableMode will treat as the end-of-line/"$"
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Wang Coeus
<wangcoeus@gmail.com> wrote:
Bastien <
bastien.guerry@wikimedia.fr> writes:
> Hi Wang,
>
> Wang Coeus <
wangcoeus@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Will org consider to support this in future?
>
> There is no plan for this right now.
>
> But what about cheating a bit and play with the _display_ of the table?
>
> | Header | Header |
> |-------------+--------|
> | I want to | |
> | write stuff | |
> | on several | |
> | lines | |
>
> You should be able to export this table to HTML or LaTeX and simulate a
> multiline cell on the first column. Just a workaround, but could do in
> some situations.
>
> Also, note that you can shrink the cell length by adding <length>:
>
> |---+------------------------------| |---+--------|
> | | | | | <6> |
> | 1 | one | | 1 | one |
> | 2 | two | ----\ | 2 | two |
> | 3 | This is a long chunk of text | ----/ | 3 | This=> |
> | 4 | four | | 4 | four |
> |---+------------------------------| |---+--------|
>
> which helps having long text in a single-line cell.
>
> HTH,
Really appreciate your help here. The reason I asked this question is
because I always feel it's too complicated to edit a table with
table.el. Your suggestion is good for me. :) But there are sometimes
also need to draw a table as below:
|-------+-------+----------------|
| | HEAD2 | Item 1 |
| +-------+----------------|
| HEAD1 | | Item 2 |
| + HEAD3 |----------------|
| | | Item 3 |
|-------+-------+----------------|
For such a kind of situation, we only can implement with table.el,
right?
Really thanks for all your kind help. :)
--
Coeus
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein
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