Peter Davis <p...@pfdstudio.com> writes: > It seems that a lot of users would like to be able to create tables > with multi-line cells in org-mode. Both HTML and LaTeX/PDF support > this, so I think it would be very useful to have a way to do this in > org-mode directly. One syntax that comes to mind would be to simply > use a number of "|" characters at the start of a line/paragraph to > indicate the column: > > | This is column 1 > || This is column 2, which might consist of a very long paragraph (or > | even multiple paragraphs) would could automatically wrap when > | exporting to LaTeX/PDF or to HTML (or to other table-friendly > | formats.) > ||| This is column 3, > |||| etc. > > Admittedly this is not as readable as a table when editing in org-mode, but > it seems intuitively clear, and would certainly make creating tables for > export easier. > > Just an idea. I'd welcome comments on this. (Note: I have nowhere near the > knowledge of lisp or org-mode implementation to be able to do this.)
I think Thunderbird put in those extra "|" on the column 2 item. It should have been: | This is column 1 || This is column 2, which might consist of a very long paragraph (or even multiple paragraphs) would could automatically wrap when |exporting to LaTeX/PDF or to HTML (or to other table-friendly formats.) ||| This is column 3, |||| etc. -pd
