Re: text-only plots

[Ivan Andrus <darthandrus@gmail.com>]

On Dec 9, 2013, at 5:19 AM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Thierry,
> 
> On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 11:10:47PM +0000, Thierry Banel wrote:
>> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>> 
>>> This is not a lot of code - I would not mind simply integrating this into
>> org-table.el  The only hickup might be
>>> that this could be trouble for the exporters - or have you produced the
>> webpage directly from an org file?
>> 
>> I'm not sure I understand the exporters issue.
>> Do you talk about the html exporter, the Odt exporter, and so on ?
>> Well, once a plot has been added to a table, it is just text.
>> It will be exported as any other content in the table.
>> Maybe I'm missing something...
>> 
>> Yes, this webpage:
>> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/orgtbl-ascii-plot.html
>> was produced by the Worg engine, from a regular Org file.
> 
> Technically speaking, it is not exported as a table since you put it as
> part of example block.  However a quick test tells me, html export will
> work fine (screenshot attached).  However LaTeX export is an entirely
> different story.  Unicode support in normal pdflatex is quite
> non-trivial.  If you use XeLaTeX, I think you could get it to work with
> some appropriate choice of fonts.  I tried libertine and dejavu without
> any luck.

Would it be possible to export it to \rule when using LaTeX?  It wouldn't be text then and you couldn't copy it, but it should work with any TeX engine regardless of fonts etc.  Just a thought.

-Ivan