Re: convert subtree or nested list to table

[Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>]

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Thanks for the thoughts, Tim.

My preference is generally to work in HTML, and in fact if I had a decent
platform to work on I could just use a container class and grid or flex
layouts, but the learning management system at my institution strips out
most styling information when HTML is uploaded, so I will probably need a
real table.

I odn't think I could really handle doing this in latex. I am a terrible
latex user!


On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 9:27 PM Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I have to write a number of text-heavy documents which need to be
> delivered as tables with wrapped paragraphs in most cells. Working directly
> in
> > table format is pretty arduous and uncomfortable.  Has anyone ever
> written a function to accept a list or subtree as input and process it into
> a table?
> >
> > If anyone has done something similar, I'd love some tips!
>
> No, have not done that. What formats do you need to export the documents
> in?
>
> I ask because if all you need to produce is Latex derived documents
> (i.e. PDF, ps etc) and you do plan to write a function yourself to do
> this, I would work backwards. Latex tables are not very good for your
> use case, but Latex can support what you want to do. Most of the Latex
> table packages are not terribly good at formatting tables containing
> paragraphs of data. They will typically require lots of hand tweaking to
> get the formatting looking right. Getting the right latex package to
> support what you need to do will make the function you will need to
> write a lot easier. Therefore, I would start with a search of the latex
> package archives to find the right package and then write an elisp
> function that generates a latex block which formats your subtree using
> that package. You probably want something which will format a table with
> minipage or similar environments in the cells.
>
> --
> Tim Cross
>
>

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