Re: convert subtree or nested list to table

[Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>]

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thank you Juan Mnauel. I'm testing it out, but I do wonder if I would
really rather work with lists and some CSS!

On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 8:56 AM Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net>
wrote:

> Hi Matt, sorry for the slow reply...
>
> Matt Price writes:
>
> > I'd love to try that, thanks. I think it would be really helpful.
> > Much appreciated!
>
> Some previous caveats:
>
> - *The code is very raw*. I wrote it almost as a "proof of concept" for
>   my personal use, therefore it is quite improvable. In any case, it
>   works (but i don't know if it will help you get what you want...).
>
> - The attached example is optimized to export to LaTeX. Use the tabularx
>   environment, which is ideal for tables with a lot of textual content.
>
> - As for the code, there are two basic functions:
>   `my-org/edit-table-cell' and
>   `my-org/kill-edit-table-cell-buffer-and-save'. To edit an empty cell,
>   you have to write something in that cell first.
>
> - The basic idea is that within each cell, the content is a single line
>   (unfilled). In the edit buffer, the content is filled. There are two
>   macros to indicate a line break and a paragraph end: {{{nl}}} and
>   {{{par}}}. In the edit buffer you can put line breaks and white lines,
>   but all of that is lost inside the cell once saved (all is a single
>   line), so those macros are needed to indicate line or paragraph breaks
>   (in LaTeX).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Juan Manuel
>
>

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