Jarmo Hurri <jarmo.hu...@syk.fi> writes: > Rick Frankel <r...@rickster.com> writes: > > Greetings again. > >> Again, the solution is to globally set the :hline property to =yes= >> instead of the default =no=, and you will get the results you want. > > The issue I am trying to raise here is the consistency of the system, > not the way to solve this particular problem. Personally I think it > would be clearer if the handling of hlines in _output_ were consistent > _by default_, regardless of whether the call is made by direct > evaluation of a block; by a post(); or by a #+CALL. I found it very > weird when I bumped into this discrepancy - in a much more complicated > context than the examples I have shown here. > > But it is your system and you know what kind of qualities you want it to > have. I am just learning the ropes and sending you a message from the > trenches. > > All the best, > > Jarmo >
I understand that this particular use case is confusing, however there are competing use cases and the case described here is not the most common. Take for example the following. #+name: data | header | |--------| | one | | two | |--------| | three | #+BEGIN_SRC sh :var in=data echo "$in" #+END_SRC #+RESULTS: | header | | one | | two | | three | In fact, hlines are *not* preserved by default with regular code blocks. And in practice only emacs-lisp code blocks tend to create hlines themselves. In general babel does a good deal of hline and colnames processing. #+name: with-a-header | numbers | |---------| | one | | two | | three | | four | Strips both the header *and* the top hline by default. #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var in=with-a-header (mapcar (lambda (row) (mapcar #'length row)) in) #+end_src #+RESULTS: | 3 | | 3 | | 5 | | 4 | Applies the code block only to the body of the input table. #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var in=with-a-header :colnames yes (mapcar (lambda (row) (mapcar #'length row)) in) #+end_src #+RESULTS: | numbers | |---------| | 3 | | 3 | | 5 | | 4 | Perhaps we should change `org-babel-default-inline-header-args' to include `(:hlines "yes")'. If there is no push back on that change I'd be happy to make it. Regards, -- Eric Schulte https://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte PGP: 0x614CA05D