Re: spreadsheet: column width behavior(s)

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Mar 27, 2010, at 7:05 PM, Samuel Wales wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> Org tables already use up horizontal space with the | syntax.  Some
> people use large fonts or small displays.
>
> Whatever solution is chosen, making it easy to make tables narrow will
> be important.

I think the new implementation (<> means fixed width N characters) does
still fulfill this request.

- Carsten

>
> Samuel
>
> On 2010-03-25, Michael Brand <michael.brand@alumni.ethz.ch> wrote:
>> Hi Carsten, hi all
>>
>> Are there reasons to only narrow but not to widen columns?
>>
>> I would like the behavior `fixed width' like
>>
>> | year | boss                          | facility management  
>> assistant  |
>> |      | <30>                          |  
>> <30>                           |
>> |------+------------------------------- 
>> +--------------------------------|
>> | 2009 | Alice                         |  
>> Bob                            |
>>
>> but with the current implementation get
>>
>> | year | boss  | facility management assistant |
>> |      | <30>  | <30>                          |
>> |------+-------+-------------------------------|
>> | 2009 | Alice | Bob                           |
>>
>> which widens the column only if there is too less space left for  
>> the column
>> content.
>>
>> As a comparison I can imagine four variants:
>> <..40>   : `maximum width' (what <40> is today)
>> <30>     : `fixed width'
>> <20..>   : `minimum width' (no narrowing)
>> <20..40> : `width range' (minimum 20, up to 40, narrowing if even  
>> longer)
>>
>> The most commonly used spreadsheet applications offer just one single
>> variant
>> out of the above four (right?) and it is `fixed width'. My vote for
>> org-table
>> would be the same: That it should support `fixed width' and that  
>> this is
>> sufficient as the only variant. What is the opinion of other users?
>>
>> - Michael
>>
>>
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- Carsten