Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:45:03 -0700: Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jul 28, 2010, at 8:28 PM, Srinivas wrote: > > > Giovanni Ridolfi <giovanni.ridolfi <at> yahoo.it> writes: > > > >> > >> David Hajage <dhajage <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> > >>> and I was wondering if row and col spaning was possible? > >> Currently not. > >> But, if this is your case, you should use the table.el package. > >> > > > > For some reason, I haven't been able to get table.el to work > > properly during > > the org-mode publish operation. > > > > Carsten had mentioned that this functionality had been fixed in the > > 6.36x > > builds but I still haven't been able to get it to work. I would like > > to see a > > work example, if you have one. > > > > Here is my sample file: > > > > ---- begin snip > > > > * sample table > > > > + ------+--------+ > > +-------+--------+ > > | | file | > > +-------+--------+ > > + ------+--------+ > > | | file | > > + ------+ | > > | test | test | > > + ------+--------+ > > What is this table above supposed to mean? > > > > * Org mode table > > > > | Header 1 | Header 2 | > > |----------+----------| > > | R1 C1 | R1 C2 | > > | R2 C1 | R2 C2 | > > | R3 C1 | R3 C2 | > > This org-mode table works fine. > > > > > * table.el table > > > > Following table has 1 multi column cell and 1 multi row cell. > > > > +----------+----------+ > > | Header 1 | Header 2 | > > +----------+----------+ > > | R1 C1-2 | > > +---------------------+ > > | R2 C1 | R2-3 C2 | > > +----------+----------+ > > | R3 C1 | | > > +----------+----------+ > > This starts an infinite loop when trying to convert it to HTML. > Org is simply calling the HTML converter in table.el, and that > code gets stuck. So I think this is a bug in table.el - please > contact the author of that package, > > Takaaki Ota <takaaki....@am.sony.com> The above table is illegal from the table.el definition point of view. The three way intersection between the cells "R1 C1-2", "R2 C1" and "R2-3 C2" must be a '+' instead of a '-'. I admit the current implementation is inferior as it gets into infinite loop instead of reporting this error. -Tak > > And report back here! > > Thanks! > > - Carsten > > > _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode