From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Skip Collins Subject: Re: What to use for tables with lengthy text in cells? Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 12:47:38 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87oao9oplu.fsf@gmail.com> <87egp3l6wd.fsf@gmail.com> <87h9tycbrq.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41560) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YTwLx-0001WH-Br for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 12:48:05 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YTwLw-0005RZ-9V for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 12:48:01 -0500 Received: from mail-la0-x233.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c03::233]:41283) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YTwLw-0005RN-1R for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 12:48:00 -0500 Received: by labgm9 with SMTP id gm9so19486982lab.8 for ; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 09:47:59 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87h9tycbrq.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: "Tory S. Anderson" Cc: emacs-org list It might even be desirable to mix single and multi line cells in the same row. That would introduce some restrictions on how single-line cells are edited when they are in a row that contains multi-line cells. I suppose they could be collapsed onto the first line in the cell by replacing newlines with spaces. That would also have to be handled carefully when converting a multi-line cell back to single line. On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Tory S. Anderson wrote: > I think \ is overloaded for export purposes, but maybe / is clear? I think that's a good idea. > > Skip Collins writes: > >> One more crazy idea. What if there were a choice of two vertical >> separators? Currently '|' is the only character used for this purpose. >> If, however, something like '\' were used to signal a multi-line cell, >> then it would be possible to control this feature on a row-by-row >> basis. As soon as the user replaces one of the '|' characters with >> '\', all vertical separators in that row also change, converting all >> of its cells to multi-line text. This has the advantage of being >> backward compatible and not overloading the horizontal line separator.