This worked too:
...
|---+-----+-------------+-----+-----+-------------+-----+-------+-----+-----+---|
| * | 11B |         21W | 31B | 41W |         51B | 61W |   71B | 81W | 91B
| * |
|---+-----+-------------+-----+-----+-------------+-----+-------+-----+-----+---|
| * | 12W | /u/0802.jpg |   0 |   0 | [[file:/u/d.j]] |   0 | multi |   0 |
  * |   |
|   |     |             |     |     |             |     |  line |     |
|   |
|   |     |             |     |     |             |     |  text |     |
|   |
|---+-----+-------------+-----+-----+-------------+-----+-------+-----+-----+---|
| * | 13B |           0 |   0 |   0 |           0 |   0 |     0 |   0 |   0
| * |
|---+-----+-------------+-----+-----+-------------+-----+-------+-----+-----+---|
...

---to do this: I put "dummy rows" around the "12W" row--"dummy rows" have
all the cells empty--and then just deleted the "separator rows"---took less
than a minute.

A little Ck Cy magic---and good old <Tab> key.

As far as the TeX ideas; making it display as a multiline cell in
export--thats a great idea too, I've made o-ton-o LaTeX tables--once you do
this process Bastien suggests, you could probably write a simple program to
munge the .tex file and then reuse the same method over and over.  TeX is
great at displaying multiline text---its the best for that---regardless of
the font.


On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Bastien <bastien.guerry@wikimedia.fr>wrote:

> 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,
>
> --
>  Bastien
>
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