Re: [Orgmode] a few suggestions for org-mode table

[Carsten Dominik]

On Jun 19, 2009, at 5:29 PM, Michael Brand wrote:

> 1) I would like to have the fixed width columns in tables to be able  
> to wrap around text as an alternative to the now implemented text  
> truncation. As a "workaround" I use this:
>
> | x | first letter  |
> | y | the greek     |
> |   | \ letter      |
> |   | \ ypsilon     |
> |   | z still empty |
> | t | x, y, z and t |
>
> This is almost perfect except the real pain for the manual rewrap  
> when changing the text. The difficulty I see here is to define, how  
> do I want to indicate the top and bottom edge and width of the cell?  
> Probably by padding the separators +---+---+ and defining the column  
> width <9> if they are not already there. But since I would like to  
> optionally remove the separators again after the change, it would be  
> necessary to have some indentation like I did with `\ ' and which  
> should not conflict with alignment.
>
>
> 2) One could like to have configurable left/right alignment, even  
> combinable with column width, e. g.
>
> | <l10>      | <r>       |
> | 3.14       |      0x10 |
> | 3.141592=> | 0x32 0x10 |

This is an excellent idea.

> 3) One could like to have decimal point alignment
>
> |   432.10 |
> | 5'432.1  |

Hmm, yes, would be nice, but maybe a bit hard.  I'll put it on my list.

- Carsten