Make wide tables more readable

Make wide tables more readable

[David Talmage]

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I'm looking for ways to make a wide table more readable.  My motivation is
from a table that is too wide to fit on my screen.  I need to be able to
see all of the contents of a cell. If it were just text, I'd use M-q
(fill-paragraph).  I've already tried org-table-wrap-region and couldn't
figure it out.

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Re: Make wide tables more readable

[John Kitchin]

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I use:

;;;###autoload
(defun tq-increase-text-size ()
  "Increase text size."
  (interactive)
  (set-face-attribute 'default nil :height
     (truncate (* 1.1 (face-attribute 'default :height)))))

;;;###autoload
(defun tq-decrease-text-size ()
  "Decrease text size."
  (interactive)
  (set-face-attribute 'default nil :height
     (truncate (* 0.9 (face-attribute 'default :height)))))

which I bind to C-- and  C-= to shrink the font size down until it fits,
then when I am done increase it.

John

-----------------------------------
Professor John Kitchin
Doherty Hall A207F
Department of Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-268-7803
@johnkitchin
http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu


On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 3:17 PM, David Talmage <david.talmage@shoutpoint.com>
wrote:

> I'm looking for ways to make a wide table more readable.  My motivation is
> from a table that is too wide to fit on my screen.  I need to be able to
> see all of the contents of a cell. If it were just text, I'd use M-q
> (fill-paragraph).  I've already tried org-table-wrap-region and couldn't
> figure it out.
>
>
>

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Re: Make wide tables more readable

[Joost Kremers]

On Thu, Dec 01 2016, John Kitchin wrote:
> I use:
>
> ;;;###autoload
> (defun tq-increase-text-size ()
>   "Increase text size."
>   (interactive)
>   (set-face-attribute 'default nil :height
>      (truncate (* 1.1 (face-attribute 'default :height)))))
>
> ;;;###autoload
> (defun tq-decrease-text-size ()
>   "Decrease text size."
>   (interactive)
>   (set-face-attribute 'default nil :height
>      (truncate (* 0.9 (face-attribute 'default :height)))))
>
> which I bind to C-- and  C-= to shrink the font size down until 
> it fits,
> then when I am done increase it.

Why not use `text-scale-adjust`? This function has convenient 
bindings in the form `C-x C-+` to increase text size, `C-x C--` to 
decrease, and `C-x C-0` to reset to default size. Furthermore, 
once you press any of these, you can simply use `+`, `-` and `0` 
for increasing, decreasing and resetting until you've found your 
preferred text size.

-- 
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments

Re: Make wide tables more readable

[John Kitchin]

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If I had to guess its because I was unaware of that command when I wrote
those functions ;)

John

-----------------------------------
Professor John Kitchin
Doherty Hall A207F
Department of Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-268-7803
@johnkitchin
http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu


On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
wrote:

>
> On Thu, Dec 01 2016, John Kitchin wrote:
>
>> I use:
>>
>> ;;;###autoload
>> (defun tq-increase-text-size ()
>>   "Increase text size."
>>   (interactive)
>>   (set-face-attribute 'default nil :height
>>      (truncate (* 1.1 (face-attribute 'default :height)))))
>>
>> ;;;###autoload
>> (defun tq-decrease-text-size ()
>>   "Decrease text size."
>>   (interactive)
>>   (set-face-attribute 'default nil :height
>>      (truncate (* 0.9 (face-attribute 'default :height)))))
>>
>> which I bind to C-- and  C-= to shrink the font size down until it fits,
>> then when I am done increase it.
>>
>
> Why not use `text-scale-adjust`? This function has convenient bindings in
> the form `C-x C-+` to increase text size, `C-x C--` to decrease, and `C-x
> C-0` to reset to default size. Furthermore, once you press any of these,
> you can simply use `+`, `-` and `0` for increasing, decreasing and
> resetting until you've found your preferred text size.
>
> --
> Joost Kremers
> Life has its moments
>

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Re: Make wide tables more readable

[Clément Pit--Claudel]

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On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Joost Kremers wrote:
> Why not use `text-scale-adjust`? 

On 2016-12-01 16:12, John Kitchin wrote:
> If I had to guess its because I was unaware of that command when I wrote those functions ;)

Note that these two don't do the same thing.  Text-scale-adjust changes the face-remapping-alist, which breaks things like company-mode.  On the other hand, text-scale-adjust is very fast, while John's solution (which works fine with company-mode) is rather slow.

Additionally, John's solution applies to the current frame, whereas text-scale-adjust is usually restricted to a single buffer.

Clément.



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Re: Make wide tables more readable

[David Talmage]

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On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 3:17 PM, David Talmage <david.talmage@shoutpoint.com>
wrote:

> ...
>
(fill-paragraph).  I've already tried org-table-wrap-region and couldn't
> figure it out.
>

I figured out org-table-wrap-region.  Most of the time it works as
expected.  Sometimes it puts text cells below the one I want.  I ended up
manually justifying my cells in a few cases.

Thank you all for the suggestions.

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