Re: org table proposal: merge and split cells in org-tables

[Ihor Radchenko]

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> To solve that problem personally, I use Asciidoctor, see how it is
> done there:
>
> Example 76. Table with formatted, aligned and merged cells:
> https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/syntax-quick-reference/#ex-cell-format

I am sorry, but this looks unreadable. I would avoid re-using such
syntax ideas.

> Org has Babel, for purposes of HTML output, Org file could use Bable
> to get HTML return from Babel containing Asciidoc and embed it in Org
> HTML.

Sure. And we do use pretty much the same approach to export table.el
tables, which are supported by Org natively (up to a limit). But this
proposal is about bringing cell merging into native Org tables.

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