Re: Syntax Proposal: Multi-line Table Cells/Text Wrapping

[Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>]

i like that.  such an org edit special type feature could efven in
principle work for a column or a row all at once.


On 3/18/21, Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> wrote:
> Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> From watching these discussions in the past, I think the big stumbling
>> block is how easily multi-row columns can be added and maintained in the
>> various export formats. Some are easy, like HTML, but others are less
>> so. In particular, I know from my many years working with Latex,
>> multi-row columns are not straight-forward. There are lots of edge cases
>> to deal with and it is hard to get a consistent result programatically.
>>
>> Proposals like this one can seem simple and straight-forward on the
>> surface. However, implementation is another matter. All of the exporters
>> will need to be updated to handle this new syntax and it will probably
>> take a fair bit of work to handle it correctly in just plain org files
>> (formatting, highlighting etc).
>
> I don't know if anyone has come up with this other possibility: if the
> problem is (usually) the inconvenience of editing cells with a lot of
> text within an Org document (since when exporting to LaTeX for example,
> it makes no difference whether the cell content is on a single line, if
> the tabularx package is used properly), then the possibility of editing
> a cell in a dedicated buffer would be very practical here. A kind of
> `org-edit-special' for cells... That could be combined with
> `org-table-toggle-column-width'.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Juan Manuel
>
>


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