Freaking awesome. What in the world *cant'* you set with Emacs/org? Incredible. John On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote: > > 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 > > > >