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From: Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>
To: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: convert subtree or nested list to table
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 23:15:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN_Dec8Mrfzv+OEgpePu34cE-mfRw7dYVu8vn+6QQhgJ=c_38g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1gcbdnb.fsf@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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  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-06  3:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-05 19:44 convert subtree or nested list to table Matt Price
2021-07-05 20:01 ` Juan Manuel Macías
     [not found]   ` <CAN_Dec8iqKS+3qvjkYvQxovegnEzqR_rra0Q-ZA9baPz1mXDAA@mail.gmail.com>
2021-07-06 12:56     ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-07-07  6:18       ` Uwe Brauer
2021-07-07 18:27         ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-07-07 18:44           ` Uwe Brauer
2021-07-07 21:16       ` Matt Price
2021-07-05 22:10 ` Tim Cross
2021-07-06  3:15   ` Matt Price [this message]
2021-07-06  5:10     ` Tim Cross
2021-07-06 11:00       ` Eric S Fraga
2021-07-06 11:49         ` Tim Cross
2021-07-06 11:50 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-07-07 21:17   ` Matt Price
2021-07-07 10:27 ` tbanelwebmin
2021-07-07 21:13   ` Matt Price
2021-07-08  9:27     ` tbanelwebmin
2021-07-08 12:22     ` Christian Moe
2021-07-20 15:11       ` Matt Price
2021-07-20 16:03         ` Nick Dokos
2021-07-20 17:03           ` Matt Price
2021-07-10 12:03 ` [a very different solution] (was: convert subtree or nested list to table) Uwe Brauer

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