John Kitchin <jkitc...@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: > Not really. Could you give an example of before and after? > > For example if you are in the middle of a row and want to insert a cell > in that row, what should happen? Should the just that row get longer? Or > should you just add a new column? How should the cells around it shift?
Okay, imagine that you have this table - | fruit | one | two | |--------+------------+------------| | pear | orange | grape | | banana | grapefruit | satsuma | | tomato | potato | clementine | And you discover that you've missed out apples and you want to put them where 'grapefruit' currently is, I would like the following to happen - | fruit | one | two | |--------+------------+------------| | pear | orange | grape | | banana | apple | satsuma | | tomato | grapefruit | clementine | | | potato | | Where the rest of the column gets shifted downwards by one cell. Now that is a very simplistic table, the one that I'm hoping to build will be 6 columns by about 60 rows, so having the ability to shift rows downwards from inserting a cell would be vital to its successful usage. Thanks Sharon. > > Sharon Kimble writes: > >> John Kitchin <jkitc...@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: >> >>> I don't totally understand what you want to do. You can insert a row or >>> column into a table. >>> >>> org-table-insert-column >>> org-table-insert-row >>> >>> Are you trying to do something different than that? >> >> Yes, I would like to just insert a single cell into a place within the >> table, and then be able to adjust all other rows and cells around it, so >> that it appears no different from any of the original cells. So that its >> assimilated into the table as a whole. >> >> Does this help explain what I want to do? >> >> Thanks >> Sharon. >> >>> >>> John >>> >>> ----------------------------------- >>> Professor John Kitchin >>> Doherty Hall A207F >>> Department of Chemical Engineering >>> Carnegie Mellon University >>> Pittsburgh, PA 15213 >>> 412-268-7803 >>> @johnkitchin >>> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 6:31 AM, Sharon Kimble <boudic...@skimble.plus.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> I maintain my 'DrugFacts' website in mediawiki. I write my article in >>> org-mode, export to mediawiki, correct the citations, then cut and paste >>> into my mediawiki page. And it all works very well. >>> >>> But the front-page is a right swine! Here is the first two rows of my >>> mediawiki front-page - >>> >>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >>> {| <!-- class="wikitable" --> >>> | '''Illegal''' >>> | '''Category's''' >>> | '''Legal''' >>> | '''Prescription only''' >>> | '''Substitute''' >>> | '''Others''' >>> |- >>> |* [[Amphetamines]] >>> |* [[:Category:Anaesthetics|Anaesthetics]] >>> |* [[Alcohol]] >>> |* [[Alprazolam]] >>> |* [[Buprenorphine]] >>> |* [[Flumazenil]] >>> |- >>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- >>> >>> And because writing mediawiki tables leads to brain damage, and a desire >>> to consume 6 pints of beer as the world is going to end in ten minutes, >>> according to Douglas Adams and Ford Prefect, I'm intending to create the >>> table in org-mode and then export to mediawiki, correct as necessary, >>> and upload. Which brings me to my question. >>> >>> Is it possible to insert a cell *inside* an org-mode table please, and >>> auto-shuffle other rows/columns about to fit? According to the 'Table' >>> menu in emacs, there isn't a way of doing it, and neither does the >>> org-mode manual say that it can be done. But perhaps other people have >>> found a way of doing it please? >>> >>> Hopefully thanks >>> Sharon. >>> -- >>> A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk >>> TGmeds = http://www.tgmeds.org.uk >>> DrugFacts = https://www.drugfacts.org.uk >>> Debian 9.0, fluxbox 1.3.5-2, emacs 25.1.1, org-mode 9.0.7 >>> > > > -- > Professor John Kitchin > Doherty Hall A207F > Department of Chemical Engineering > Carnegie Mellon University > Pittsburgh, PA 15213 > 412-268-7803 > @johnkitchin > http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk TGmeds = http://www.tgmeds.org.uk DrugFacts = https://www.drugfacts.org.uk Debian 9.0, fluxbox 1.3.5-2, emacs 25.1.1, org-mode 9.0.7
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