Re: [emacs-humanities] Emacs as a library manager

[Joost Kremers]

On Thu, Feb 04 2021, M. ‘quintus’ Gülker wrote:
[Org tables]
> . This approach does not need any third party tools and can even be
> exported nicely as PDF if you want a physical list. Where it breaks
> down is if you want to store lots of metadata. Org can deal with
> horizontally long lables, but it becomes quite hard to read.

You can do `M-x toggle-truncate-lines`, that makes it a bit easier to deal with.

IME, having long tables (hundreds of rows), tends to make navigating and
realigning them slow. (Though my computer is quite under-powered, I must admit.)
I've found the solution in such cases is to split the table into multiple
shorter tables.


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