Re: Re: row and col spaning in table?

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Aug 16, 2010, at 11:24 PM, Tak Ota wrote:

> Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:45:03 -0700: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jul 28, 2010, at 8:28 PM, Srinivas wrote:
>>
>>> Giovanni Ridolfi <giovanni.ridolfi <at> yahoo.it> writes:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> David Hajage <dhajage <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> and I was wondering if row and col spaning was possible?
>>>> Currently not.
>>>> But, if this is your case, you should use the table.el package.
>>>>
>>>
>>> For some reason, I haven't been able to get table.el to work
>>> properly during
>>> the org-mode publish operation.
>>>
>>> Carsten had mentioned that this functionality had been fixed in the
>>> 6.36x
>>> builds but I still haven't been able to get it to work. I would like
>>> to see a
>>> work example, if you have one.
>>>
>>> Here is my sample file:
>>>
>>> ---- begin snip
>>>
>>> * sample table
>>>
>>> + ------+--------+
>>> +-------+--------+
>>> |       | file   |
>>> +-------+--------+
>>> + ------+--------+
>>> |       |  file  |
>>> + ------+        |
>>> |  test |  test  |
>>> + ------+--------+
>>
>> What is this table above supposed to mean?
>>
>>
>>> * Org mode table
>>>
>>> | Header 1 | Header 2 |
>>> |----------+----------|
>>> | R1 C1    | R1 C2    |
>>> | R2 C1    | R2 C2    |
>>> | R3 C1    | R3 C2    |
>>
>> This org-mode table works fine.
>>
>>>
>>> * table.el table
>>>
>>> Following table has 1 multi column cell and 1 multi row cell.
>>>
>>> +----------+----------+
>>> | Header 1 | Header 2 |
>>> +----------+----------+
>>> | R1 C1-2             |
>>> +---------------------+
>>> | R2 C1    | R2-3 C2  |
>>> +----------+----------+
>>> | R3 C1    |          |
>>> +----------+----------+
>>
>> This starts an infinite loop when trying to convert it to HTML.
>> Org is simply calling the HTML converter in table.el, and that
>> code gets stuck.  So  I think this is a bug in table.el - please
>> contact the author of that package,
>>
>>       Takaaki Ota <Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com>
>
> The above table is illegal from the table.el definition point of view.

Ah, I should have seen this.  Thank you for your fast reply,
and sorry for the noise.

- Carsten