From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Brand <michael.brand@alumni.ethz.ch>,
Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: spreadsheet: column width behavior(s)
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:40:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D127C068-522B-4F9C-AEF2-1507A6B999D2@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20524da71003271105n232378fdqd4dc449e01e626c6@mail.gmail.com>
On Mar 27, 2010, at 7:05 PM, Samuel Wales wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Org tables already use up horizontal space with the | syntax. Some
> people use large fonts or small displays.
>
> Whatever solution is chosen, making it easy to make tables narrow will
> be important.
I think the new implementation (<> means fixed width N characters) does
still fulfill this request.
- Carsten
>
> Samuel
>
> On 2010-03-25, Michael Brand <michael.brand@alumni.ethz.ch> wrote:
>> Hi Carsten, hi all
>>
>> Are there reasons to only narrow but not to widen columns?
>>
>> I would like the behavior `fixed width' like
>>
>> | year | boss | facility management
>> assistant |
>> | | <30> |
>> <30> |
>> |------+-------------------------------
>> +--------------------------------|
>> | 2009 | Alice |
>> Bob |
>>
>> but with the current implementation get
>>
>> | year | boss | facility management assistant |
>> | | <30> | <30> |
>> |------+-------+-------------------------------|
>> | 2009 | Alice | Bob |
>>
>> which widens the column only if there is too less space left for
>> the column
>> content.
>>
>> As a comparison I can imagine four variants:
>> <..40> : `maximum width' (what <40> is today)
>> <30> : `fixed width'
>> <20..> : `minimum width' (no narrowing)
>> <20..40> : `width range' (minimum 20, up to 40, narrowing if even
>> longer)
>>
>> The most commonly used spreadsheet applications offer just one single
>> variant
>> out of the above four (right?) and it is `fixed width'. My vote for
>> org-table
>> would be the same: That it should support `fixed width' and that
>> this is
>> sufficient as the only variant. What is the opinion of other users?
>>
>> - Michael
>>
>>
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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
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 [this message]
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