Re: insert cell inside an org-mode table?

[John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>]

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?



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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