Tamil unicode table column alignment

Tamil unicode table column alignment

[Shakthi Kannan]

Hi,

I am using Org-mode version 8.2.10 and GNU Emacs 24.5.1, and have the
following table in an org file:

=== BEGIN ===

| எழுத்து | பெயர்  | சொல்  |
|--------+-------+------|
| அ      | அகரம்  | அம்மா |
| ஆ      | ஆகாரம் | ஆடு  |
| இ      | இகரம்  | இலை  |
| ஈ      | ஈகாரம் | ஈட்டி |

=== END ===

The "|" are in their respective columns when I check their position
using the cursor, but, visually they are mis-aligned.

when I export to HTML the columns are neatly aligned. Is there a way
to make them aligned in the buffer itself?

SK

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Re: Tamil unicode table column alignment

[Eric S Fraga]

On Wednesday, 14 Oct 2015 at 20:46, Shakthi Kannan wrote:

[...]

> when I export to HTML the columns are neatly aligned. Is there a way
> to make them aligned in the buffer itself?

Unlikely unless you can find a typeface for displaying tamil glyphs that
is fixed width, i.e. where each glyph takes up the same amount of
horizontal space...
-- 
: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.50.2, Org release_8.3.2-161-gd2ac25

Re: Tamil unicode table column alignment

[Michael Brand]

Hi Shakthi

I would recommend to read this tread:
"mis-alignment in org-tables with Tibetan characters"
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2014-02/msg00072.html

Michael

Re: Tamil unicode table column alignment

[Achim Gratz]

Shakthi Kannan writes:
> when I export to HTML the columns are neatly aligned. Is there a way
> to make them aligned in the buffer itself?

This works only if you use a font where all glyphs are the same width.


Regards,
Achim.
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