Re: [O] Side-by-side support
Hello Christian Christian Wittern cwitt...@gmail.com writes: On 2012-01-20 05:03, Jambunathan K wrote: side-by-side has surfaced in the list for the second time, I think it deserves to be supported out of the box. I strongly support this, since I have a lot of files with side-by-side content. The first question is of course how does the org source look like. I think laying out tables either list tables (or for that matter, it's beamer equivalent) will become particularly inconvenient to edit. In both the cases, the two-dimensional structure is laid out along the single-dimension and it would become difficult to remember which column or row when one is editing at a given point in time. In my case, I have simply separated the columns by a tab character and set the tab-width to a sensible value for nice on-screen display. These are 'text' and 'translation of that text' side-by-side, When you are saying on-screen display, I presume you are referring to the Emacs screen? I have a strong feeling that you are using two column editing. Otherwise, it would be extremely difficult to keep one's sanity. See C-h k C-x 6 2 (info (emacs) Two-Column). I have a wild-thought. Why not use use 2C editing for creating multi-paragraph Org tables. I am Ccing Nicolas (who is likely to have thought more about this stuff) since the last conversation. sometimes interrupted by section headers, notes and so on. Therefore I end up with multiple 'tables', which will need to have the same width throughout the document. Therefore for this use-case, I would like to see a global setting for the relative width of these columns. --
Re: [O] Side-by-side support
Hi Jambunathan, On 2012-01-24 01:34, Jambunathan K wrote: In my case, I have simply separated the columns by atab character and set the tab-width to a sensible value for nice on-screen display. These are 'text' and 'translation of that text' side-by-side, When you are saying on-screen display, I presume you are referring to the Emacs screen? I have a strong feeling that you are using two column editing. Otherwise, it would be extremely difficult to keep one's sanity. Actually I started out using 2C editing for this, but it came constantly in my way, so currently what I am doing is: (1) use a tab character to separate the two columns and (2) set the tab-width to 30 (in most cases), so that most of the columns are nicely separated. This works very well for editing in Emacs. However, at the moment I do not have an easy way to export this to ODT as it s. Now I have given further thought to this, maybe the following will work: (1) consecutive lines with 1 or more tab characters and the *same* number of such tabs will be considered as a table and the exporter will work with this as if it were a org-table. (Note that I usually only have two columns and as you said, with more columns one is probably better off using proper tables) (2) This option is switched on or off through a variable or a OPTION line in the header of the file. (3) as I mentioned earlier, it would be good to be also able to globally set the proportions (maybe this can already be done with column properties?) All the best, Christian -- Christian Wittern, Kyoto
[O] Side-by-side support (was:Re: [ODT] image scaling overridden by long caption)
On 2012-01-20 05:03, Jambunathan K wrote: side-by-side has surfaced in the list for the second time, I think it deserves to be supported out of the box. I strongly support this, since I have a lot of files with side-by-side content. The first question is of course how does the org source look like. In my case, I have simply separated the columns by a tab character and set the tab-width to a sensible value for nice on-screen display. These are 'text' and 'translation of that text' side-by-side, sometimes interrupted by section headers, notes and so on. Therefore I end up with multiple 'tables', which will need to have the same width throughout the document. Therefore for this use-case, I would like to see a global setting for the relative width of these columns. All the best, Christian Christian Wittern, Kyoto
