Re: Org+table.el = mutli line cells?

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Jul 2, 2010, at 4:54 PM, John Hendy wrote:

> - Thanks for the table link, though I only see how to change frames  
> and borders on the provided link. Do I just need to pass some html/ 
> css option through #+ATTR_HTML?
>
> - Also... stupid me. I meant to specify that I'm looking to do this  
> in LaTeX, not necessarily html, though I'm glad to have knowledge of  
> both.
>
> After more reading, this seems pretty doable through the 'p{width}'  
> alignment option which seems to work through #+ATTR_LaTeX to control  
> automatic wrapping in a cell. My remaining question is whether or  
> not it's possible to enable tabular* instead of the default  
> environment as then I could limit both columns and determine table  
> widths. I don't know that tabular seems to have this option?

After git pull, you can do

(setq org-export-latex-tabular-environment "tabular*")

HTH

- Carsten

>
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>
> On Jul 1, 2010, at 10:14 PM, John Hendy wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
> I export to variable page widths and would like to be able to  
> specify a limit on my tables which seem to always run on as long as  
> they need to without regard for any margins or borders. I found a  
> post here where a user asked the question I was looking for: http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg22353.html
>
> So... table.el (as I have since found during fiddling) does create  
> multi-line cells, which is awesome.
>
> I can't find any documentation for it, though?? I am just looking  
> for [hopefully] basic/easy things like:
>
> - bold a cell (*word* doesn't seem to work in table.el tables)
> - limit the overall width of the table
>
> Formatting inside table.el cells does not work because this is a  
> completely
> different export mechanism.
>
> To fix the width of a table (normal Org-mode table), see
>
> http://orgmode.org/manual/Tables-in-HTML-export.html#Tables-in-HTML-export
>
> - Carsten
>
>

- Carsten