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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Tim Cross , orgmode Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yhetil.org; s=key1; t=1616280636; h=from:from:sender:sender:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references:list-id:list-help: list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-post:dkim-signature; bh=PNaDIkiyBYoxfvnr6b8YNWWdOC2X8qdDVudniZgL6yU=; b=aJRgCIkBy5hkiTt6o31IfDkJwLZb2SPmzIdGmfGjD4nrS6xRLXuy2ILv6F08MUKuSPZ2XB IKk6FU2HZzKB0czLlBSqlzUEUInvSyK138AGZppI313fvRTd2GyJeLlm+LLdV9HD7Y6LKc e+d0VEAVTYZcU3QHwuG+aPx29hcBzOBab5Oh0+ECgfPEY2A9QsCZLLTdMrjNzeFg17ySNb 7Oiw290MGjr5gRaSKkEVD6FH7I3JIRLqZNZxtdZS5L164E19kz80e29V+1llWD4KTJmHbY pIzpX2NhFCy08jQZIh6pLn44GeL8ieiOGlNFQR1lvT/zJ1L6MNK/MBiqf34KzA== ARC-Seal: i=1; s=key1; d=yhetil.org; t=1616280636; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; b=mKdvTSrvZOO5RIpmXbuyEwhS5uAYGe4zNxoFXO3Up7w9kWAOEXVFtCPK+iGI7VJ9EhF2L2 9RA9tYu03M9kiRt0QPOz7+4QEqCQYPh9YDvOyyv+flB/58wDRfqgdh+UjGti/cZWCXLUxx 2hpisdkIWxw0uOVHPkcpdfmc5ox1MrtQMMTQT4eCoapiZiFzOLpQioEUvUMpAzo/pGh7QH 0WFH6oTVptVbQYNlWbHxCngiuK7nxn555/Gv5j+PKKpzbMn7M99rCYY8EyYAeus8UG8D4O geD9ReRuKppno5sKljKl6g85LnKZdjI3zTlgWhhd/cLFrus4EacyWfiaku9clg== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20161025 header.b=DAjiS1fn; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of emacs-orgmode-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=emacs-orgmode-bounces@gnu.org X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -3.11 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20161025 header.b=DAjiS1fn; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of emacs-orgmode-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=emacs-orgmode-bounces@gnu.org X-Migadu-Queue-Id: AE7582039B X-Spam-Score: -3.11 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn0.migadu.com X-TUID: NMZiKFj9Wg+k 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 Mac=C3=ADas wrote: > Tim Cross 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 > > --=20 The Kafka Pandemic Please learn what misopathy is. https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-some-diseases-are-wronged= .html