From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Org+table.el = mutli line cells? Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 10:41:40 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40629 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OW3it-0008Jk-QY for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:41:48 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OW3is-0001oX-18 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:41:47 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41]:56467) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OW3ir-0001o9-QU for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:41:45 -0400 Received: by bwz9 with SMTP id 9so4191640bwz.0 for ; Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:41:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: John Hendy Cc: emacs-orgmode 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 > 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