From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Elisp Reference Manual on inserting tables Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2022 12:48:08 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87r0yi4qly.fsf@disroot.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36025"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.7+37 (a90f69b) (2022-09-02) Cc: Akib Azmain Turja , Christopher Dimech , Help Gnu Emacs To: Heime Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 06 10:50:54 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1orcIo-0009AL-Ir for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 10:50:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1orcIB-0004MA-H0; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 04:50:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1orcI9-0004Ls-FW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 04:50:13 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1orcI7-0001vN-U7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 04:50:13 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.239.4.221]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000081FEB.0000000063678352.00004CEB; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 02:50:09 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Heime , Akib Azmain Turja , Christopher Dimech , Help Gnu Emacs Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -17 X-Spam_score: -1.8 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SBL=0.141, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:140713 Archived-At: * Heime [2022-11-06 11:32]: > > When thinking of any table, I like to think of data and then the > > visual table becomes the representation of it. > > > > "Inserting table" means "representing data in a table". > > > > Something I do every day. > > Right. But there does not seem to be a let of support or tutorial about > how to make them in any type of buffer. Because those are higher level functions and packages. Maybe it exists somewhere among existing Emacs packages. You can't expect anything you wish to be built in, that is why you will create functions which you need. I find alignment a difficult problem, that is why using Org table and automatica alignment, and then export to Unicode or similar, will make nice tables for purpose of presentation. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/