From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Michael Brand <michael.brand@alumni.ethz.ch>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: spreadsheet: column width behavior(s)
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:15:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <056252B3-42C3-4DFE-A4FE-774F57C235D6@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BAE040A.8080906@alumni.ethz.ch>
On Mar 27, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Michael Brand wrote:
>>> Are there reasons to only narrow but not to widen columns?
>> I think this is really the only thing that makes sense. Why would
>> you want it any wider, given the limited amount of screen real
>> estate we have here? I don't think it would be difficult to make
>> it behave the way you request, but I don't think I would ever
>> use widening fields. When would you want to use this?
>
> I see, there _are_ reasons for `maximum width' (and other variants
> would be only additional if ever).
>
> The variant `fixed width' can be useful for the following timetable.
> Here it is achieved with the field content
> `<= widen'
> in the last row.
>
> several columns with the same width:
>
> |-------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------|
> | | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri |
> |-------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------|
> | 8:15 | Math | Compute=> | - | Math | Compute=> |
> | 13:15 | - | Math | Compute=> | - | Math |
> |-------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------|
> | / | <9> | <9> | <9> | <9> | <9> |
> | / | <= => | <= => | <= => | <= => | <= => |
>
> instead of:
>
> |-------+------+--------------+--------------+------+--------------|
> | | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri |
> |-------+------+--------------+--------------+------+--------------|
> | 8:15 | Math | Computer S=> | - | Math | Computer S=> |
> | 13:15 | - | Math | Computer S=> | - | Math |
> |-------+------+--------------+--------------+------+--------------|
> | / | | <12> | <12> | | <12> |
>
> or even:
>
> | Mon | 8:15 | Math |
> | Tue | 8:15 | Computer Science |
> | Tue | 13:15 | Math |
> | Wed | 13:15 | Computer Science |
> | Thu | 8:15 | Math |
> | Fri | 8:15 | Computer Science |
> | Fri | 13:15 | Math |
Yes, thinking more about it, I do agree that a fixed width makes a lot
of sense as the application of <N>. It does now work like this.
Thanks!
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-27 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-25 19:53 spreadsheet: column width behavior(s) Michael Brand
2010-03-26 20:53 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-03-27 13:11 ` Michael Brand
2010-03-27 15:15 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-03-27 17:15 ` Michael Brand
2010-03-27 17:27 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-03-27 18:05 ` Samuel Wales
2010-03-28 12:40 ` Carsten Dominik
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