Uwe Brauer writes: > I think, one attempt could be to use org-edit-special, to edit a cell, > type the text in a temporary buffer, fill it and then return to the table. > > That seems so obvious that I think there might be technical problems, > because otherwise it would have been implemented already.
I proposed that here the last time a similar discussion came up, but now I don't think it's a good idea. I believe the root problem is that the visual representation of the tables in Org is line oriented. Cells with a lot of content (paragraphs, for example) should be shrunken, because the content is a single line; when editing each cell in its special buffer, that content would have to be converted into paragraphs, and when saving the edition buffer, convert it back to a single line again. I tried to write something similar for my personal use, but it is very tricky. Maybe such an implementation would work better for AUCTeX, since tables in LaTeX are not line oriented. About a possible solution for Org regarding the topic of 'complex' tables, I have ended up giving up. I think it is better to create the complex tables in raw LaTeX. To export them to HTML you could perhaps think of a LaTeX block that would return the results compiling with tex4ht (https://ctan.org/pkg/tex4ht?lang=en) instead of LaTeX. But I don't know if it would work. The point is that anything other than a simple and clean table (visually speaking) in Org, is to enter the land of the tricks. Best regards, Juan Manuel
