Re: Support for buffer-column-aligned tables in Org?

[Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>]

long shot but try align.el maybe?  column -t or similar?

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fwiw a more advanced version: cells shouodb e presumed to be in their
own columns even if missing.

length  20  H  width  20  depth  20
length  2        width  20  depth  20

i mainly want to compact these column tables by reducing extraneous
whitespece beetween columns to the miimum whitespace necessary while
retaining all columns.

an org table would be itnerestig.

i have long wondered if org tables could be converted into a minimal
column-based ascii table such as yours, to preserve horizontal space.


On 10/25/23, Jens Schmidt <jschmidt4gnu@vodafonemail.de> wrote:
> Is there any kind of support (also by non-core extensions) for tables
> in Org that are entirely organized along buffer columns?  Some magic
> (= clever heuristics) that recognizes the following as a table with
> four columns, the first three left-aligned, the last right-aligned:
>
>         <6>                             1.0
>      1  one                  some      10.0
>      2  two                  boring   100.0
>      3  This is a long text  column  1000.0
>
> By "organized along buffer columns" I mean that basically any kind of
> white-space should be allowed to align the columns in the buffer.
>
> By "any kind of support" I mean:
>
> - one-time conversion support to an Org table along the lines of C-c |
>
> - or edit/export support of such tables w/o the need to convert them
>   to an Org table first.
>
> I tried searching but failed to find search terms that are specific
> enough to find anything useful.
>
> Thanks.
>
>


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