Re: Multicolumn

[John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Neuwirth Erich
<erich.neuwirth@univie.ac.at> wrote:
> My problem is that the tables are produce by R code snippets.
> The code snippets produce plain org tables, bracketed by attributes identifying
> the text as ORG code.
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> #+RESULTS:
> #+BEGIN_ORG
> | Jahr | Region | m   | w   | pWert | m.se  | w.se  |
> |------+--------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------|
> | 2000 | Sonst  | 508 | 507 | 0.85  | 4.91  | 4.93  |
> #+END_ORG
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> I am able to insert additional lines before and after the text produce by the R commands with the following technique (in R):
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> print(as.table(NULL),quote=FALSE,type="org")
> cat("|-------|\n")
> print(res,type="org")
> cat("|-------|\n")
>

Not ideal, but could your R code just write the LaTeX syntax? cat()
the align statement and then cat() the "&" and "\\" stuff manually?

John

>
> 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.
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> On Aug 29, 2012, at 2:28 AM, "Christopher J. White" <orgmode@grierwhite.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Erich,
>>
>> I have a hack for multicolumn support that may help... It's not great, but serves my purpose.
>>
>> I implemented a TWiki mode that uses orgtbl-minor-mode.  TWiki pages support multicolumn cells by adding vertical bars with no separators:
>>
>> Display:
>>
>> |  Multicol     |
>> |  C1   |   C2  |
>>
>> TWiki format:
>> | Multicol ||
>> | C1 | C2 |
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> So the orgtbl version of the above looks like this in the buffer:
>>
>> | Multicol | << |
>> | C1       | C2 |
>>
>> The down side is that the text "Multicol" will expand the display size of C1, so if it gets long, the table grows:
>>
>> | This is a long multicol cell | << |
>> | C1                           | C2 |
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> ...cj
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> I think that tables with headers like this:
>>>
>>> |               |    mean       |         s.e.        |
>>> | gender | varA | varB |  varA | varB |
>>>
>>> are quite common, so I really want to put this feature on the wish list.
>>> I am not able to implement this myself.
>>>
>>> Erich
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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