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

[tomas]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 11:41:11PM +0100, Juan Manuel Macías wrote:
> 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 [...]

> 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 [...]

I think this point is very important: "multi-row" is ambiguous.

Does it mean the rendering in Org?  In someother output format? Are the
row breaks chosen by the user (and thus they have /some/ "meaning") or
are they chosen by some rendering mechanism (word wrap, perhaps
hyphenation)?

> the possibility of editing a cell in a dedicated buffer would be very
> practical here.

If the aim is "just rendering in Org" and "breaks have no special
meaning" (so each render is allowed to re-flow), then your approach
makes sense (I think Org table has something like that: you can
set the column width and shrink/expand the column appropriately.
Personally, I've found that somewhat awkward, so I don't use it,
but OTOH I'm not a heavy table user: perhaps that's why).

Cheers
 - t

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