Re: insert cell inside an org-mode table?

[Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com>]

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John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> Not really. Could you give an example of before and after?
>
> For example if you are in the middle of a row and want to insert a cell
> in that row, what should happen? Should the just that row get longer? Or
> should you just add a new column? How should the cells around it shift?

Okay, imagine that you have this table -

| fruit  | one        | two        |
|--------+------------+------------|
| pear   | orange     | grape      |
| banana | grapefruit | satsuma    |
| tomato | potato     | clementine |

And you discover that you've missed out apples and you want to put them
where 'grapefruit' currently is, I would like the following to happen -

| fruit  | one        | two        |
|--------+------------+------------|
| pear   | orange     | grape      |
| banana | apple      | satsuma    |
| tomato | grapefruit | clementine |
|        | potato     |            |

Where the rest of the column gets shifted downwards by one cell.

Now that is a very simplistic table, the one that I'm hoping to build
will be 6 columns by about 60 rows, so having the ability to shift rows
downwards from inserting a cell would be vital to its successful usage.

Thanks
Sharon.

>
> Sharon Kimble writes:
>
>> John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>>
>>> I don't totally understand what you want to do. You can insert a row or column into a table.
>>>
>>>   org-table-insert-column
>>>   org-table-insert-row
>>>
>>> Are you trying to do something different than that?
>>
>> Yes, I would like to just insert a single cell into a place within the
>> table, and then be able to adjust all other rows and cells around it, so
>> that it appears no different from any of the original cells. So that its
>> assimilated into the table as a whole.
>>
>> Does this help explain what I want to do?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Sharon.
>>
>>>
>>> John
>>>
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>>> On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 6:31 AM, Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>     I maintain my 'DrugFacts' website in mediawiki. I write my article in
>>>     org-mode, export to mediawiki, correct the citations, then cut and paste
>>>     into my mediawiki page. And it all works very well.
>>>
>>>     But the front-page is a right swine! Here is the first two rows of my mediawiki front-page -
>>>
>>>     --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>>     {| <!-- class="wikitable" -->
>>>     | '''Illegal'''
>>>     | '''Category's'''
>>>     | '''Legal'''
>>>     | '''Prescription only'''
>>>     | '''Substitute'''
>>>     | '''Others'''
>>>     |-
>>>     |* [[Amphetamines]]
>>>     |* [[:Category:Anaesthetics|Anaesthetics]]
>>>     |* [[Alcohol]]
>>>     |* [[Alprazolam]]
>>>     |* [[Buprenorphine]]
>>>     |* [[Flumazenil]]
>>>     |-
>>>     --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>>
>>>     And because writing mediawiki tables leads to brain damage, and a desire
>>>     to consume 6 pints of beer as the world is going to end in ten minutes,
>>>     according to Douglas Adams and Ford Prefect, I'm intending to create the
>>>     table in org-mode and then export to mediawiki, correct as necessary,
>>>     and upload. Which brings me to my question.
>>>
>>>     Is it possible to insert a cell *inside* an org-mode table please, and
>>>     auto-shuffle other rows/columns about to fit? According to the 'Table'
>>>     menu in emacs, there isn't a way of doing it, and neither does the
>>>     org-mode manual say that it can be done. But perhaps other people have
>>>     found a way of doing it please?
>>>
>>>     Hopefully thanks
>>>     Sharon.
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>>>
>
>
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> Doherty Hall A207F
> Department of Chemical Engineering
> Carnegie Mellon University
> Pittsburgh, PA 15213
> 412-268-7803
> @johnkitchin
> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu

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