From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Neuwirth Erich Subject: Re: Multicolumn Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 03:05:16 +0200 Message-ID: <6016052F-A436-4E4A-860A-3D0F1FD80B88@univie.ac.at> References: <1DB0A90A-0891-46BF-A110-C8EB85175B5B@univie.ac.at> <503D6242.2040708@grierwhite.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.0 \(1486\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39997) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T6Wij-0005dX-1G for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:05:28 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T6Wif-0004pP-1l for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:05:24 -0400 Received: from grace.univie.ac.at ([131.130.3.115]:42985) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T6Wie-0004n5-Is for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:05:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <503D6242.2040708@grierwhite.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: orgmode@grierwhite.com Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org My problem is that the tables are produce by R code snippets. The code snippets produce plain org tables, bracketed by attributes = identifying=20 the text as ORG code. #+RESULTS: #+BEGIN_ORG | Jahr | Region | m | w | pWert | m.se | w.se | |------+--------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------| | 2000 | Sonst | 508 | 507 | 0.85 | 4.91 | 4.93 | #+END_ORG I am able to insert additional lines before and after the text produce = by the R commands with the following technique (in R): print(as.table(NULL),quote=3DFALSE,type=3D"org") cat("|-------|\n") print(res,type=3D"org") cat("|-------|\n") So I could write a line with my multicol headers. But for that to work, org mode would have to honor multicol indicators = in the text. On Aug 29, 2012, at 2:28 AM, "Christopher J. White" = wrote: > Hi Erich, >=20 > I have a hack for multicolumn support that may help... It's not great, = but serves my purpose. >=20 > I implemented a TWiki mode that uses orgtbl-minor-mode. TWiki pages = support multicolumn cells by adding vertical bars with no separators: >=20 > Display: >=20 > | Multicol | > | C1 | C2 | >=20 > TWiki format: > | Multicol || > | C1 | C2 | >=20 > Notice the double vertical bars after Multicol. The number of = vertical bars on every row must be the same. You can join as many cells = as you want that way. I basically wanted to be able to still use = orgtbl-minor-mode to edit such tables. So I hacked my = twiki-import/export code to convert "||" to "| << |" and vice-versa. >=20 > So the orgtbl version of the above looks like this in the buffer: >=20 > | Multicol | << | > | C1 | C2 | >=20 > The down side is that the text "Multicol" will expand the display size = of C1, so if it gets long, the table grows: >=20 > | This is a long multicol cell | << | > | C1 | C2 | >=20 > So it gets me what I want, which is orgtbl editing, and import/export = support to twiki format. Seems a similar technique could be backed in = to any org export engine. >=20 > ...cj >=20 > On 8/28/12 5:10 PM, Neuwirth Erich wrote: >> After some googling it seems that multicolumn support is not yet = implemented in org tables. >> I would need multicolumn headers quite urgently, >> but I have not yet found a way to make this possible. >>=20 >> I think that tables with headers like this: >>=20 >> | | mean | s.e. | >> | gender | varA | varB | varA | varB | >>=20 >> are quite common, so I really want to put this feature on the wish = list. >> I am not able to implement this myself. >>=20 >> Erich >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >=20 >=20