* Make wide tables more readable
@ 2016-12-01 20:17 David Talmage
2016-12-01 20:31 ` John Kitchin
2016-12-01 22:47 ` David Talmage
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: David Talmage @ 2016-12-01 20:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
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I'm looking for ways to make a wide table more readable. My motivation is
from a table that is too wide to fit on my screen. I need to be able to
see all of the contents of a cell. If it were just text, I'd use M-q
(fill-paragraph). I've already tried org-table-wrap-region and couldn't
figure it out.
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* Re: Make wide tables more readable
2016-12-01 20:17 Make wide tables more readable David Talmage
@ 2016-12-01 20:31 ` John Kitchin
2016-12-01 20:43 ` Joost Kremers
2016-12-01 22:47 ` David Talmage
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From: John Kitchin @ 2016-12-01 20:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Talmage; +Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
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I use:
;;;###autoload
(defun tq-increase-text-size ()
"Increase text size."
(interactive)
(set-face-attribute 'default nil :height
(truncate (* 1.1 (face-attribute 'default :height)))))
;;;###autoload
(defun tq-decrease-text-size ()
"Decrease text size."
(interactive)
(set-face-attribute 'default nil :height
(truncate (* 0.9 (face-attribute 'default :height)))))
which I bind to C-- and C-= to shrink the font size down until it fits,
then when I am done increase it.
John
-----------------------------------
Professor John Kitchin
Doherty Hall A207F
Department of Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-268-7803
@johnkitchin
http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 3:17 PM, David Talmage <david.talmage@shoutpoint.com>
wrote:
> I'm looking for ways to make a wide table more readable. My motivation is
> from a table that is too wide to fit on my screen. I need to be able to
> see all of the contents of a cell. If it were just text, I'd use M-q
> (fill-paragraph). I've already tried org-table-wrap-region and couldn't
> figure it out.
>
>
>
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2016-12-01 20:31 ` John Kitchin
@ 2016-12-01 20:43 ` Joost Kremers
2016-12-01 21:12 ` John Kitchin
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Joost Kremers @ 2016-12-01 20:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: John Kitchin; +Cc: David Talmage, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
On Thu, Dec 01 2016, John Kitchin wrote:
> I use:
>
> ;;;###autoload
> (defun tq-increase-text-size ()
> "Increase text size."
> (interactive)
> (set-face-attribute 'default nil :height
> (truncate (* 1.1 (face-attribute 'default :height)))))
>
> ;;;###autoload
> (defun tq-decrease-text-size ()
> "Decrease text size."
> (interactive)
> (set-face-attribute 'default nil :height
> (truncate (* 0.9 (face-attribute 'default :height)))))
>
> which I bind to C-- and C-= to shrink the font size down until
> it fits,
> then when I am done increase it.
Why not use `text-scale-adjust`? This function has convenient
bindings in the form `C-x C-+` to increase text size, `C-x C--` to
decrease, and `C-x C-0` to reset to default size. Furthermore,
once you press any of these, you can simply use `+`, `-` and `0`
for increasing, decreasing and resetting until you've found your
preferred text size.
--
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments
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* Re: Make wide tables more readable
2016-12-01 20:43 ` Joost Kremers
@ 2016-12-01 21:12 ` John Kitchin
2016-12-01 21:33 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: John Kitchin @ 2016-12-01 21:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Joost Kremers; +Cc: David Talmage, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
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If I had to guess its because I was unaware of that command when I wrote
those functions ;)
John
-----------------------------------
Professor John Kitchin
Doherty Hall A207F
Department of Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-268-7803
@johnkitchin
http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 01 2016, John Kitchin wrote:
>
>> I use:
>>
>> ;;;###autoload
>> (defun tq-increase-text-size ()
>> "Increase text size."
>> (interactive)
>> (set-face-attribute 'default nil :height
>> (truncate (* 1.1 (face-attribute 'default :height)))))
>>
>> ;;;###autoload
>> (defun tq-decrease-text-size ()
>> "Decrease text size."
>> (interactive)
>> (set-face-attribute 'default nil :height
>> (truncate (* 0.9 (face-attribute 'default :height)))))
>>
>> which I bind to C-- and C-= to shrink the font size down until it fits,
>> then when I am done increase it.
>>
>
> Why not use `text-scale-adjust`? This function has convenient bindings in
> the form `C-x C-+` to increase text size, `C-x C--` to decrease, and `C-x
> C-0` to reset to default size. Furthermore, once you press any of these,
> you can simply use `+`, `-` and `0` for increasing, decreasing and
> resetting until you've found your preferred text size.
>
> --
> Joost Kremers
> Life has its moments
>
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* Re: Make wide tables more readable
2016-12-01 21:12 ` John Kitchin
@ 2016-12-01 21:33 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
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From: Clément Pit--Claudel @ 2016-12-01 21:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
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On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Joost Kremers wrote:
> Why not use `text-scale-adjust`?
On 2016-12-01 16:12, John Kitchin wrote:
> If I had to guess its because I was unaware of that command when I wrote those functions ;)
Note that these two don't do the same thing. Text-scale-adjust changes the face-remapping-alist, which breaks things like company-mode. On the other hand, text-scale-adjust is very fast, while John's solution (which works fine with company-mode) is rather slow.
Additionally, John's solution applies to the current frame, whereas text-scale-adjust is usually restricted to a single buffer.
Clément.
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* Re: Make wide tables more readable
2016-12-01 20:17 Make wide tables more readable David Talmage
2016-12-01 20:31 ` John Kitchin
@ 2016-12-01 22:47 ` David Talmage
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: David Talmage @ 2016-12-01 22:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
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On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 3:17 PM, David Talmage <david.talmage@shoutpoint.com>
wrote:
> ...
>
(fill-paragraph). I've already tried org-table-wrap-region and couldn't
> figure it out.
>
I figured out org-table-wrap-region. Most of the time it works as
expected. Sometimes it puts text cells below the one I want. I ended up
manually justifying my cells in a few cases.
Thank you all for the suggestions.
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