Eric S Fraga <esfli...@gmail.com> writes: > On Monday, 11 Sep 2017 at 04:36, jiewuza wrote: >> It is quite common to have multi-rows/columns cells in talbe. But as far >> as I know, it seems impossible with the org built-in table editor. > > org does not support multi-row/column cells in tables.
Well, I am thinking whether this proposal would work: 1. `|@` as a separator, meaning the next cell will span multiple columns 2. `|$` as a separator, meaning the next cell will span multiple rows 3. the span will terminate when it meats a regular cell separator `|` 4. the content of the "multi-rows/columns cell"(the big cell) should be placed in the right-bottom single cell of the big one For example, these two tables have the same effect. #+BEGIN_SRC org |@ | header |$ | | h1 | h2 | h3 | |----+--------+----| | a |@$ |$ | | d |@ | f | +-----+-----+-----+ | h | | +-----+-----+ h3 | | h1 | h2 | | +-----+-----+-----+ | a | | +-----+ f | | d | | +-----+-----------+ #+END_SRC I do not know if it can be implemented in a clear and simple way based on the current org-table and ox-* code. Maybe '|@n$m' like separator (m,n is a number) would be simpler. I do not know. But it is great if org supports multi-row/column cells in tables.
