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:
http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/forum2007/230-2007.pdf
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/proc/61895/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a002473736.htm
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/proc/61895/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a002473751.htm
** Program example is in: http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/proc/61895/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a002473751.htm
** 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|
              ---------------------------------------------------
** Shows how to put .xls files into SAS, etc.: http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/forum2007/230-2007.pdf
** 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"!

** From http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html :
...
#+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

** Make a DITAA diagram of the table and use the methods shown at: http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html 

* 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:

** Example:

|--------+-----| -------+-------+
| 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,

Hi Bastien,
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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