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From: "Juan Manuel Macías" <maciaschain@posteo.net>
To: Atlas Cove <Atlas48@gmx.com>
Cc: orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Syntax Proposal: Multi-line Table Cells/Text Wrapping
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 23:07:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sg4tbfia.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7a450ea3-b0e4-3322-04cd-fb5a5a555db8@gmx.com> (Atlas Cove's message of "Wed, 17 Mar 2021 20:29:56 +0000")

Hi,

Atlas Cove <Atlas48@gmx.com> writes:

> Code-wise, the use of the '\\' symbol is only tentative, as I
> understand that '\' has special meaning elsewhere in org's syntax, (I
> was even going to submit a patch to add two special symbols somewhere
> down the line). '\\' (or whatever symbol is decided on) would cause
> the org parser to concatenate the next line into the outputted
> previous cell, rendering the output of the first example identical to
> the second example.

I agree that what you are commenting on is the great problem of Org Mode
tables. Just a question. If I have understood it correctly, with this
new syntax you propose, should Org understand all the 'concatenated
text'

Very Citrusy! Very \\
nice indeed!

as a single row (and not as multiple rows)? If so that would be
great, since the best way to deal with this kind of tables with a lot of
text in LaTeX is with the tabularx package. For example, I would export
your table like this:

#+begin_src org
  ,#+LaTeX_Header:\usepackage{tabularx,array}
  ,#+ATTR_LaTeX: :environment tabularx :align l>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}Xl :width .6\textwidth :center t
  | Name         | Description                                           | Price |
  |--------------+-------------------------------------------------------+-------|
  | Orange Juice | Very Citrusy! Very nice indeed! ... and a lot of text |  5.00 |
  | Grape Juice  | It's like wine, but you can have it all day!          |  6.00 |
#+end_src

Best regards,

Juan Manuel 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-17 22:08 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 [this message]
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
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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