From: Vicente Vera <vicentemvp@gmail.com>
To: Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com>
Cc: org mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Complex conversion of text to org table
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 15:26:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMfbzvCh=tmVqRGuD2w=ey4m4GW4EK6weX+fbBpUVkR2Qwrrbw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOQHXPpvXo9borR223TOAjoyy+_HAE-4jwxND7VSUMnuErOovw@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello. In this case Org splits into columns everytime it sees a space, so
"baking soda" ends up in two columns. A brute force solution: replace the
spaces between words that shouldn't be put into separated columns with an
underscore:
1_cup all-purpose_flour
Convert it to an Org table and then do a quick M-x replace-string to
replace '_' with ' '.
2017-03-12 15:14 GMT+00:00 Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com>:
> Hi list
>
> so im trying to use orgmode to collect food recepies. i have one issue
> which is to convert text based ingridents list into org tables.
>
> for example take this list
>
> 3/4 cup milk
> 2 tablespoons white vinegar
> 1 cup all-purpose flour
> 2 tablespoons white sugar
> 1 teaspoon baking powder
> 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
> 1/2 teaspoon salt
> 1 egg
> 2 tablespoons butter, melted
> cooking spray
>
> if i mark this as a region and issue `org-table-create-or-convert-from-region`
> this is the result
>
> | 3/4 | cup | milk | | | | |
> | |
> | 2 | tablespoons | white | vinegar | (%or | better | yet |
> lemon | juice%) |
> | 1 | cup | all-purpose | flour | | | |
> | |
> | 2 | tablespoons | white | sugar | | | |
> | |
> | 1 | teaspoon | baking | powder | | | |
> | |
> | 1/2 | teaspoon | baking | soda | | | |
> | |
> | 1/2 | teaspoon | salt | | | | |
> | |
> | 1 | egg | | | | | |
> | |
> | 2 | tablespoons | butter, | melted | | | |
> | |
> | cooking | spray | | | | | |
> | |
>
>
> as you can see it got the amount (1/2) and the unit (cup) right yet the
> actual ingredients is cut into several columns
>
> i dont really know how to deal with this. is there a more intelligent way
> of auto directing the conversion to split it the correct way?
>
> if not any suggestions on how to convert it in a better way? perhaps a
> command to quick delete the separator (|) across all the column?
>
> thx alot in advance
>
> Z
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-12 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-12 15:14 Complex conversion of text to org table Xebar Saram
2017-03-12 15:26 ` Vicente Vera [this message]
2017-03-12 15:35 ` Xebar Saram
2017-03-12 16:46 ` Scott Randby
2017-03-12 16:52 ` Scott Randby
2017-03-14 0:56 ` Vicente Vera
2017-03-14 13:18 ` John Kitchin
2017-03-12 16:51 ` Thierry Banel
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