From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Elisp Reference Manual on inserting tables Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2022 17:05:29 +0100 Message-ID: <87pmdylph2.fsf@web.de> References: <87iljuishm.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87v8nth846.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <6Z6_K1-F06LaCcWUNoIbXE2j8T1KXL2FCaQ-hNfVFK6TfqUFTZPVJIdJR2pn_MlmjA-eSlg1Hzcl-t2WhXmzKztKLhvVn2iY_PP9JWaCVe4=@protonmail.com> <87r0yfbyhj.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="10397"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:93V8OKtLHALZpwjRPzThS/bNaww= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 07 17:10:39 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1os4hq-0002Xn-Fj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2022 17:10:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1os4hL-0005Ch-6E; Mon, 07 Nov 2022 11:10:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1os4hJ-0005Au-D2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2022 11:10:05 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1os4hI-0005Fi-0m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2022 11:10:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1os4hG-0001h9-7G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2022 17:10:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.25, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:140792 Archived-At: Jean Louis writes: > I would use list of lists for table elements They are. (?) > I consider it common that some columns need to be added as total and > some columns need to be aligned. Then parsing all cells of the table > could find the maximum width of some columns, and make sure of > formatting. That's also how it works, unless I misunderstand what you mean. Michael.