Re: making coloured tables

[Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com>]

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On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Sebastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com
> wrote:

> Hi Andras,
>
> Andras Major wrote:
> >> Andras Major wrote:
> >>> I'm really intrigued by org-mode's table and spreadsheet functionality
> and
> >>> would like to use it for those cases where I found excel and gnumeric
> >>> impractically cumbersome.
> >>>
> >>> What I want are two slightly diffent things:
> >>>
> >>> - Make tables that have cells with individual background colours when
> >>>   exported as HTML or PDF.
> >>>
> >>> - Make tables that have cells with background colours and typeface
> details
> >>>   (bold, italic, etc.) based on contents of either the cells themselves
> or
> >>>   other cells in the table. (Example: mark all negative numerical
> values
> >>>   of a table with a red background.)
> >>>
> >>> Furthermore, the colouring should be portable, i.e. independent of the
> >>> settings in .emacs.
> >>
> >> I add wishes on the above list. Maybe someone will be able to implement
> >> them, if they seem to make sense... So, here's my idea: having some
> >> automagic style (background) applied on the cells to distinguish:
> >>
> >> - the input cells (the ones you cannot delete... without troubles): they
> >>   don't have any formula associated with them
> >>
> >> - the final result cells: the ones with computed results
> >>
> >> - the other ones, whose content is computed, but serves as input to
> other
> >>   cells.
> >>
> >> Would these be in different colors, I think it would make the reading of
> >> tables much more efficient. And, as far as I know, this does not exist
> yet
> >> in tools like Excel -- though people can manually apply such color
> >> conventions.
> >
> > I was thinking along slightly different lines. We have a customizable
> <td>
> > tag in HTML export already, but that customization isn't very flexible.
> If
> > we could have something like a <td> tag that can be set from values in
> the
> > table, or by Lisp code, then I think that would solve my problems.
>
> My above feature of the wishlist isn't for export -- I misread your
> original
> post. Just speaking of editing feature in the Org buffer, for giving more
> insight on formulas in tables.
>

I think that would be very useful feature to be included - I trashed a few
times already (fairly simple) tables because of modifying formula cells....

Cheers,

Rainer




> These "color features" weren't intended IMHO for export. So the 2
> "problems"
> are in fact apart from each other.
>
> > It's important, however, that setting the export tag must be local to the
> > Org file so I can set it there instead of the global .emacs.
>
> Best regards,
>  Seb
>
> --
> Sebastien Vauban
>
>
>


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