From: Jeremy Bryant via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Lockywolf Laptop <lockywolf@gmail.com>
Cc: pranshusharma366@gmail.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
71364@debbugs.gnu.org, rrt@sc3d.org
Subject: bug#71364: Fix Table.el export
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2024 23:25:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874j92qhtk.fsf@jeremybryant.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87plrqy39e.fsf@laptop.lockywolf.net> (Lockywolf Laptop's message of "Sat, 06 Jul 2024 22:00:45 +0800")
Lockywolf Laptop <lockywolf@gmail.com> writes:
>>should or should not expect LaTeX markup
>
> How much of LaTeX markup?
> What if you add some mysterious \makeatletter there?
>
> I generally agree with Reuben that making this work is a thing hard to
> get right.
>
> Moreover, as I mentioned above, I only used table.el with org-mode, but
> I can't remember for sure what happens if one uses org-links in the
> table.el cells. Do they become latex href links? Or links to images? Do
> they turn into \includegraphics? Latex math is part of org, so I
> presume, it is expected to somehow work, but I am not sure how.
>
>>In any case, this is beyond the immediate issues discussed in this bug
>>report, I think. Broken code must be fixed.
>
> I don't think it is a bug. It is an intentional limitation of scope,
> which implements a crude but simple way of producing valid outputs,
> albeit not 100% functional.
>
I concur - why is it a bug? (as opposed to a feature extension)
To write LaTeX documents, including with tables, there are dedicated
major modes.
On the other hand, table.el's Commentary states
;; This package provides text based table creation and editing
;; feature. With this package Emacs is capable of editing tables that
;; are embedded inside a text document, the feature similar to the
The primary input appears plain text, with the export to LaTeX a
convenience.
So it appears that the problem is approached the wrong way around?
From this point of view how practical or desirable (feature duplication)
is it to allow the processing of a smaller or larger subset of LaTeX
within table.el?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-06 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-06-04 11:22 bug#71364: Fix Table.el export Pranshu
2024-06-06 11:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-07 7:00 ` Pranshu
2024-06-07 10:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-08 2:10 ` Pranshu
2024-06-08 6:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-08 8:15 ` Pranshu
2024-06-08 10:05 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-08 10:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-08 10:59 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-08 11:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-08 11:27 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-09 4:33 ` Pranshu
2024-06-09 8:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-09 8:33 ` Pranshu
2024-06-21 8:25 ` Pranshu
2024-06-22 9:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-06 7:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-06 14:00 ` Lockywolf Laptop
2024-07-06 22:25 ` Jeremy Bryant via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2024-07-09 7:05 ` Pranshu
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