Re: [O] orgtbl multicolumn support

[Michael Bach]

Michael Bach <address@hidden> writes:

# edit

> Dear org-mode Users and Developers,

> I just wanted to know whether there are plans to support multicolumns in
> default orgtbl-to-latex.  Something along these lines:
>
> #+ORGTBL: SEND multicol orgtbl-to-latex :splice t :skip 0 :hline "\\midrule"
> |   | a | b           | c |
> |---+---+-------------+---|
> | 1 |   | mc(2)(c)(3) |   |
> |   | 2 | mc(2)(c)(4) |   |
>
> Would produce
>
> % % BEGIN RECEIVE ORGTBL multicol
>   & a & b & c\NN
> \midrule
> 1 &   & \multicolumn{2}{c}{3} & \NN
>   & 2 & \multicolumn{2}{c}{4} & \LL
> % END RECEIVE ORGTBL multicol

# This should correctly read:

% % BEGIN RECEIVE ORGTBL multicol
  & a & b & c                 \\
\midrule
1 &   & \multicolumn{2}{c}{3} \\
  & 2 & \multicolumn{2}{c}{4} \\
% END RECEIVE ORGTBL multicol

> The reason being that I would like to use \multicolumn often in the
> middle of an orgtbl.  My workarounds with manually inserting the LaTeX
> macro are clumsy.
>
> I understood that users should write their own conversion functions.  If
> I was going to try my fresh elisp fu, I wanted to ask here whether there
> exists a generic orgtbl syntax to implement the above intercell
> modification.  I read the doc for version 7.5 but maybe there are also
> new methods in the dev version which I freshly use.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Michael Bach