Re: Org+table.el = mutli line cells?

From: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Org+table.el = mutli line cells?
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 09:08:57 -0500	[thread overview]
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Freaking awesome. What in the world *cant'* you set with Emacs/org?
Incredible.

John

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Carsten Dominik
<carsten.dominik@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On Jul 2, 2010, at 4:54 PM, John Hendy wrote:
>
>  - Thanks for the table link, though I only see how to change frames and
>> borders on the provided link. Do I just need to pass some html/css option
>> through #+ATTR_HTML?
>>
>> - Also... stupid me. I meant to specify that I'm looking to do this in
>> LaTeX, not necessarily html, though I'm glad to have knowledge of both.
>>
>> After more reading, this seems pretty doable through the 'p{width}'
>> alignment option which seems to work through #+ATTR_LaTeX to control
>> automatic wrapping in a cell. My remaining question is whether or not it's
>> possible to enable tabular* instead of the default environment as then I
>> could limit both columns and determine table widths. I don't know that
>> tabular seems to have this option?
>>
>
> After git pull, you can do
>
> (setq org-export-latex-tabular-environment "tabular*")
>
> HTH
>
> - Carsten
>
>
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> John
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Carsten Dominik <
>> carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 1, 2010, at 10:14 PM, John Hendy wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I export to variable page widths and would like to be able to specify a
>> limit on my tables which seem to always run on as long as they need to
>> without regard for any margins or borders. I found a post here where a user
>> asked the question I was looking for:
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg22353.html
>>
>> So... table.el (as I have since found during fiddling) does create
>> multi-line cells, which is awesome.
>>
>> I can't find any documentation for it, though?? I am just looking for
>> [hopefully] basic/easy things like:
>>
>> - bold a cell (*word* doesn't seem to work in table.el tables)
>> - limit the overall width of the table
>>
>> Formatting inside table.el cells does not work because this is a
>> completely
>> different export mechanism.
>>
>> To fix the width of a table (normal Org-mode table), see
>>
>> http://orgmode.org/manual/Tables-in-HTML-export.html#Tables-in-HTML-export
>>
>> - Carsten
>>
>>
>>
> - Carsten
>
>
>
>

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