General heading in a table in org-mode

General heading in a table in org-mode

[Cecil Westerhof]

I like the table possibility in org-mode. But I would like a general heading
possibility. Like:

|--------------+-----------------|
| general description            |
|--------------+-----------------|
| field1       | field2          |
|--------------+-----------------|
| description1 | value2          |
| .            | .               |
| .            | .               |
| .            | .               |
| descriptionn | valuen          |
|--------------+-----------------|
| total        | vsum(@II..@III) |
|--------------+-----------------|

Is this possible?

Re: General heading in a table in org-mode

[carsten.dominik]

On Jun 7, 6:22 am, Cecil Westerhof <d...@dummy.nl> wrote:
> I like the table possibility in org-mode. But I would like a general heading
> possibility. Like:
>
> |--------------+-----------------|
> | general description            |
> |--------------+-----------------|
> | field1       | field2          |
> |--------------+-----------------|
> | description1 | value2          |
> | .            | .               |
> | .            | .               |
> | .            | .               |
> | descriptionn | valuen          |
> |--------------+-----------------|
> | total        | vsum(@II..@III) |
> |--------------+-----------------|
>
> Is this possible?

No, this is not possible.  You can do this using the table.el package
that is also
part of Emacs 22, but in other ways these tables have much less
features that
org-mode's (for example, they cannot compute.

Or, why don't you just put the general header over the table by hand,
like

      General Header
| table | fields |start | here |


Hope this helps

- Carsten

- Carsten

Re: General heading in a table in org-mode

[Cecil Westerhof]

 carsten.dominik@gmail.com wrote:

> On Jun 7, 6:22 am, Cecil Westerhof <d...@dummy.nl> wrote:
>> I like the table possibility in org-mode. But I would like a general
>> heading possibility. Like:
>>
>> |--------------+-----------------|
>> | general description            |
>> |--------------+-----------------|
>> | field1       | field2          |
>> |--------------+-----------------|
>> | description1 | value2          |
>> | .            | .               |
>> | .            | .               |
>> | .            | .               |
>> | descriptionn | valuen          |
>> |--------------+-----------------|
>> | total        | vsum(@II..@III) |
>> |--------------+-----------------|
>>
>> Is this possible?
> 
> No, this is not possible.

I was afraid for that. ;-}


> You can do this using the table.el package 
> that is also
> part of Emacs 22, but in other ways these tables have much less
> features that
> org-mode's (for example, they cannot compute.

That is not an option for me. I use it, because they compute.


> Or, why don't you just put the general header over the table by hand,
> like
> 
>       General Header
> | table | fields |start | here |

Is an option. The only problem is tathat when the table changes, I have to
change the header also, but I can life with that.


> Hope this helps

It does.