On 2015-11-19, at 09:36, jfbu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Mosè and Joost, > > Le 18 nov. 2015 à 23:52, Mosè Giordano <[email protected]> a écrit : > >> Hi Joost, >> >> 2015-11-17 13:18 GMT+01:00 Joost Kremers <[email protected]>: >>> If you do decide to take on the challenge, here's a few things to take >>> into consideration: >> >> Well, it was more a dream than a declaration of action, I'm not going >> to work on that ;-) org has its own simple syntax for tables and it >> works very well, but editing real LaTeX tables requires much more >> attention, for example they can be split over lines (I don't think >> it's the case for org). > > I am going off-topic here, but it could be possible to address this > issue at the TeX level: I mean by this define a LaTeX environment for > tables which would use org-syntax. Thus you could have the goodies > you mention on the Emacs editing side, and the LaTeX compilation would > proceed directly. > > For example TeX allows at the inner core any choice of character for > tabulation in alignments, thus we could use | rather than &. Of course > higher level structures will perhaps really need a &, but then they > can be rewritten to work with |. (use of | as tabulation means one > has to address how to use it as standard character elsewhere) > > (for example the table in the screenshot provided by Joost can definitely > be analyzed at TeX macro level, if the goal is to produce simple centered > columns; I don't know how org says to use left or right aligned columns) > > I mention this as a theoretical possibility !
You mean, something like this? http://ctan.org/pkg/tap > (and now I am going to go and check org documentation for > its table syntax and realize I posted too hastily this...) Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University _______________________________________________ auctex mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
