Re: Syntax Proposal: Multi-line Table Cells/Text Wrapping

[Juan Manuel Macías]

Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> writes:

> From watching these discussions in the past, I think the big stumbling
> block is how easily multi-row columns can be added and maintained in the
> various export formats. Some are easy, like HTML, but others are less
> so. In particular, I know from my many years working with Latex,
> multi-row columns are not straight-forward. There are lots of edge cases
> to deal with and it is hard to get a consistent result programatically. 
>
> Proposals like this one can seem simple and straight-forward on the
> surface. However, implementation is another matter. All of the exporters
> will need to be updated to handle this new syntax and it will probably
> take a fair bit of work to handle it correctly in just plain org files
> (formatting, highlighting etc).

I don't know if anyone has come up with this other possibility: if the
problem is (usually) the inconvenience of editing cells with a lot of
text within an Org document (since when exporting to LaTeX for example,
it makes no difference whether the cell content is on a single line, if
the tabularx package is used properly), then the possibility of editing
a cell in a dedicated buffer would be very practical here. A kind of
`org-edit-special' for cells... That could be combined with
`org-table-toggle-column-width'.

Best regards,

Juan Manuel