long shot but try align.el maybe? column -t or similar? ===
fwiw a more advanced version: cells shouodb e presumed to be in their own columns even if missing. length 20 H width 20 depth 20 length 2 width 20 depth 20 i mainly want to compact these column tables by reducing extraneous whitespece beetween columns to the miimum whitespace necessary while retaining all columns. an org table would be itnerestig. i have long wondered if org tables could be converted into a minimal column-based ascii table such as yours, to preserve horizontal space. On 10/25/23, Jens Schmidt <jschmidt4...@vodafonemail.de> wrote: > Is there any kind of support (also by non-core extensions) for tables > in Org that are entirely organized along buffer columns? Some magic > (= clever heuristics) that recognizes the following as a table with > four columns, the first three left-aligned, the last right-aligned: > > <6> 1.0 > 1 one some 10.0 > 2 two boring 100.0 > 3 This is a long text column 1000.0 > > By "organized along buffer columns" I mean that basically any kind of > white-space should be allowed to align the columns in the buffer. > > By "any kind of support" I mean: > > - one-time conversion support to an Org table along the lines of C-c | > > - or edit/export support of such tables w/o the need to convert them > to an Org table first. > > I tried searching but failed to find search terms that are specific > enough to find anything useful. > > Thanks. > > -- The Kafka Pandemic A blog about science, health, human rights, and misopathy: https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com