Peter Davis <p...@pfdstudio.com> writes: > 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. >
Well crap, Gnus did the same thing. What I intended was that the entire "This is column 2 ... other table-friendly formats.)" be on one line, with no hard breaks. -pd
