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* ASCII Tables with row and colspans
@ 2023-10-12 21:05 Ag Ibragimov
  2023-10-13 12:02 ` Ihor Radchenko
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Ag Ibragimov @ 2023-10-12 21:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel


I've driven myself into a self-imposed headache. I need to render an HTML table (Elisp representation of it, result of libxml-parse) in ASCII. Org-mode tables are notorious for their lack of support for spanned columns or rows. Yay, table.el can do it, it's nice for inserting a table and modifying the content interactively. However, it's not really suitable for filling out a table programmatically. There's a `table-insert-sequence` command in table.el that allows you to insert text into a selected cell while automatically adjusting the table, but it's agonizingly slow to call as a function. Sadly, table.el doesn't seem to have a function that could "adjust the table" the way how `org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c` does in org-mode (which, again, doesn't support spans).

Like if I have something like this (that's a parsed example from the Wiktionary):

'(table
    ((style . "background-color:#F0F0F0;width:100%")
     (class . "inflection-table"))
    (tbody
     nil
     (tr
      nil
      (th ((colspan . "2") (style . "background-color:#e2e4c0;")) "infinitive") " "
      (td ((colspan . "6") (style . "text-align:center;")) "conocer"))
     (tr
      nil (th ((colspan . "2") (style . "background-color:#e2e4c0;")) "gerundive") " "
      (td
       ((colspan . "6") (style . "text-align:center;"))
       (span
        ((class . "Latn") (lang . "ast"))
        (a ((href . "/wiki/conociendo#Asturian")
            (title . "conociendo"))
           "conociendo")) " "))
     (tr...)
     (tr...)
     (tr...)
     (tr...)))

What's fast and easy way to render it in ASCII?



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2023-10-12 21:05 ASCII Tables with row and colspans Ag Ibragimov
2023-10-13 12:02 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-10-19  2:13   ` Ag Ibragimov
2023-10-19  3:21     ` Emanuel Berg
2023-10-19  6:46 ` Visuwesh
2023-11-03 10:20 ` Jean Louis
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