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From: Charles Turner <chturne@gmail.com>
To: mail@christianmoe.com
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, kjambunathan@gmail.com,
	Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com>
Subject: Re: Orthogonality of blocks
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:51:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EFB2CFE.9030207@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EFA34C0.3000200@christianmoe.com>

On 27/12/11 21:12, Christian Moe wrote:
> will do it in HTML. Full example follows below. I'll leave LaTeX to
> those in the know...

Thanks. This was the "best" solution for me. I quote because the 
abstraction boundary between "how it's rendered" and "what I want to be 
rendered" is getting fuliginous. It would be much better imo to have 
blocks of first-class, and functions of higher-order on those blocks, so 
one could say (side-by-side block1 block2) and the side-by-side 
procedure would deal with the different format nuances. The idea is 
similar to that of the Henderson Escher examples in SICP[1], where you 
have "painters" and functions that combine "painters" in interesting 
ways.  Might be fun to investigate how far that can go with blocks in org.

@Jambunathan: Your examples render the blocks with sizes proportional to 
the contained text, rather than aligning as a table. I find that 
aesthetically displeasing :-(

Thanks all for the help.
	Charles.

[1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-15.html#%_sec_2.2.4

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-28 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-27 19:46 Orthogonality of blocks Charles Turner
2011-12-27 20:37 ` Eric Schulte
2011-12-27 21:12   ` Christian Moe
2011-12-27 21:10     ` Eric Schulte
2011-12-27 23:19       ` Christian Moe
2011-12-27 23:30     ` Nick Dokos
2011-12-28  0:14       ` Torsten Wagner
2011-12-28  4:48       ` Jambunathan K
2011-12-28  5:30         ` Jambunathan K
2011-12-28  7:10       ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-12-28 14:51     ` Charles Turner [this message]
2011-12-29  5:18       ` Jambunathan K
2011-12-29  5:49         ` Enhancing table cell alignments and commenting columns (was Re: Orthogonality of blocks) Jambunathan K
2011-12-29  6:06           ` Jambunathan K
2011-12-29 16:22           ` Jambunathan K
2011-12-29  6:14       ` Orthogonality of blocks Jambunathan K
2011-12-30 14:17 ` Eric S Fraga

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