I think this is exactly what I want (with just a little moreprocessing). Thank you so much for the idea!
I'm having a little bit of trouble getting the same output as you though, and I'm wondering if there might be a setting that I need to change.
Here is what I tried, and the result. Do you have an idea of what is going wrong here?
Thank you!
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#+NAME:essay-rubric
- Category
- A
- B
- C
- D
- F
- Writing
- great
- good
- ok
- lousy
- awful
#+begin_src emacs-lisp :var contents=essay-rubric :results table
contents
#+end_src
#+RESULTS:
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
| (("Category" |
#+end_src
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Hi Matt
Le 05/07/2021 à 21:44, Matt Price a écrit :
> 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!
Maybe you could use builtin Babel
Hereafter you have a starting point
- Give a name to your input Org list
- Process it with Emacs-Lisp (or whatever language you are comfortable
with) to output it as a table
____ self contained Org Mode example _____
Example of a named list
#+NAME: BBB
- abc
+ 123
+ 456
- def
+ red
+ blue
- ghi
+ big
+ small
Example of converting the named list into a table with Emacs-Lisp
#+begin_src elisp :var bbb=BBB :results table
bbb
#+end_src
#+RESULTS:
| abc | (unordered (123) (456)) |
| def | (unordered (red) (blue)) |
| ghi | (unordered (big) (small)) |
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