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From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: "Juan Manuel Macías" <maciaschain@posteo.net>
Cc: orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Syntax Proposal: Multi-line Table Cells/Text Wrapping
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 14:43:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210319134333.GA6484@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o8ffxvmt.fsf@posteo.net>

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On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 11:53:14AM +0100, Juan Manuel Macías wrote:
> tomas@tuxteam.de writes:
> 
> > For export formats, there could be (yet another) "signal" to convey
> > "new paragraph here" which then is the exporter's job. Perhaps an
> > empty line (as is traditional in TeX) or something else.
> 
> I think that signal would be a good solution within a single line. For
> example, for an emergency a simple macro would suffice, something as:
> 
> #+MACRO: par @@latex:\par{}@@

Yes, something like that. My point was that it probably makes sense to
separate concerns here.

> Anyway, I suspect that Org tables are not originally intended for such a
> 'literary' content :-) ...

That's right. OTOH, people will try to stretch it in every conceivable
direction. That's in a way Org's biggest strength (and at the same time
its biggest weakness :)

> LaTeX tabular(x) environment and Org tables
> have in common that they are plain text, but that’s where the
> similarities end [...]

Rigth. (La)TeX is a typesetting language. Cool things can be done,
but they have a cost.

Cheers
 - t

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-19 13:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-17 20:29 Syntax Proposal: Multi-line Table Cells/Text Wrapping Atlas Cove
2021-03-17 21:02 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2021-03-17 22:07 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-18 13:38   ` Atlas Cove
2021-03-18 14:04     ` Daniele Nicolodi
2021-03-18 15:15     ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-18 14:19 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-03-18 14:26 ` Timothy
2021-03-18 14:31   ` Atlas Cove
2021-03-18 21:58     ` Tim Cross
2021-03-18 22:41       ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-19  8:08         ` tomas
2021-03-19  8:44           ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-19  8:53             ` tomas
2021-03-19  9:22               ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-19 10:14                 ` tomas
2021-03-19 10:53                   ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-19 11:08                     ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-19 13:43                     ` tomas [this message]
2021-03-19 15:07                       ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-20 22:49         ` Samuel Wales
2021-03-21  8:43           ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-19  2:27       ` Timothy
2021-03-19  3:50         ` Tim Cross
2021-03-19  4:02           ` Timothy
2021-03-19 13:33       ` Eric S Fraga
2021-03-19 21:33         ` Tim Cross
2021-03-20  9:19           ` Eric S Fraga
2021-03-20 10:40           ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-20 13:41         ` Andreas Eder
2021-03-20 22:06           ` Tim Cross
2021-03-22 10:54             ` Eric S Fraga
2021-04-01  6:15       ` Tom Gillespie

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