Table alignment

Table alignment

[Thomas S. Dye]

Aloha all,

Aligning this table with C-c C-c when the cursor is in one of the cells
of the first column results in an error: "if: Wrong type argument:
char-or-string-p, nil".

It works in other cells or on one of the hlines.
 
|--------------------+----------+--------------------|
| Command            | A Number | Comments           |
|--------------------+----------+--------------------|
| =\alignauthor=     |      100 | Author alignment   |
|--------------------+----------+--------------------|
| =\numberofauthors= |      200 | Author enumeration |
|--------------------+----------+--------------------|
| =\table=           |      300 | For tables         |
|--------------------+----------+--------------------|
| =\table*=          |      400 | For wider tables   |
|--------------------+----------+--------------------|

Perhaps this is known behavior?  If so, sorry for the noise.  Org-mode
tables typically just work for me, so I was surprised to find a
situation where one did not.

All the best,
Tom

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Re: Table alignment

[Bastien]

Hi Thomas,

tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes:

> Aligning this table with C-c C-c when the cursor is in one of the cells
> of the first column results in an error: "if: Wrong type argument:
> char-or-string-p, nil".

It is confused by the "=" character, and thinks it is a formula that
needs evaluation.  I just pushed a fix for this, thanks for reporting
this! 

-- 
 Bastien

Re: Table alignment

[Thomas S. Dye]

Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes:
>
>> Aligning this table with C-c C-c when the cursor is in one of the cells
>> of the first column results in an error: "if: Wrong type argument:
>> char-or-string-p, nil".
>
> It is confused by the "=" character, and thinks it is a formula that
> needs evaluation.  I just pushed a fix for this, thanks for reporting
> this! 

Thanks Bastien.  The fix works fine.

All the best,
Tom
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Table alignment

[Vikas Rawal]

There is something in my .emacs that messes up table alignment in
org. Have been struggling to find it. If I remove my .emacs, table
alignment is fine. I have tried commenting parts of .emacs to identify
the offending lines. But somehow I am missing it.

A copy of my .emacs is at: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10112644/dotemacs

Will be grateful if somebody could help? Is there a way I can load my
.emacs segment by segment and see when the problem appears?

Vikas

Re: Table alignment

[Mikhail Titov]

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   1. Rename .emacs to renamed.el
   2. Start vanilla emacs
   3. Open your renamed.el file
   4. Select region of intereset
   5. Evaluate region with M-x eval-region
   6. See if it is still working
   7. Go to 4


On 08/31/2011 12:46 AM, Vikas Rawal wrote:
> There is something in my .emacs that messes up table alignment in
> org. Have been struggling to find it. If I remove my .emacs, table
> alignment is fine. I have tried commenting parts of .emacs to identify
> the offending lines. But somehow I am missing it.
>
> A copy of my .emacs is at: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10112644/dotemacs
>
> Will be grateful if somebody could help? Is there a way I can load my
> .emacs segment by segment and see when the problem appears?
>
> Vikas
>
>

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Re: Table alignment

[Jambunathan K]

> There is something in my .emacs that messes up table alignment in
> org. Have been struggling to find it. If I remove my .emacs, table
> alignment is fine. 

OK. Looks like you have been experiementing with different fonts. Is
Liberation Sans-10 a monospaced font or a variable pitch (Is this
terminology correct). Table alignment works only if all characters
occupy the same width.

Focus on (set-default-font ...) stuff.

FWIW, This is what I use.

,----
| gdi:-raster-Courier-normal-normal-normal-mono-20-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1 (#x62)
`----

Jambunathan K.

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Re: Table alignment

[Vikas Rawal]

> 
> Focus on (set-default-font ...) stuff.

Thanks Jambunathan and Mikhail,

The problem is with the font stuff and, strangely, with desktop.

I need to comment out the region dealing with fonts, and the following
line to make the tables align.

(desktop-save-mode 1)

Has anyone else had a problem with use of desktop-save-mode?

Vikas

Re: Table alignment

[Vikas Rawal]

> FWIW, This is what I use.
> 
> ,----
> | gdi:-raster-Courier-normal-normal-normal-mono-20-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1 (#x62)
> `----
> 
My tables are not aligned with even this font. I did.

(set-default-font "-raster-Courier-normal-normal-normal-mono-20-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1")

So, for the moment all settings for fonts and desktop-save-mode are disabled.

Vikas