Michael Bach <pha...@gmail.com> writes: What kind of evil, sleep-deprived line of thoughts took me when I wrote this? Must have been too late for anything remotely meaningful. This one clearly did not deserve any answer... Sorry for the noise
> Michael Bach <pha...@gmail.com> writes: > > # edit > >> Dear org-mode Users and Developers, > >> I just wanted to know whether there are plans to support multicolumns in >> default orgtbl-to-latex. Something along these lines: >> >> #+ORGTBL: SEND multicol orgtbl-to-latex :splice t :skip 0 :hline "\\midrule" >> | | a | b | c | >> |---+---+-------------+---| >> | 1 | | mc(2)(c)(3) | | >> | | 2 | mc(2)(c)(4) | | >> >> Would produce >> >> % % BEGIN RECEIVE ORGTBL multicol >> & a & b & c\NN >> \midrule >> 1 & & \multicolumn{2}{c}{3} & \NN >> & 2 & \multicolumn{2}{c}{4} & \LL >> % END RECEIVE ORGTBL multicol > > # This should correctly read: > > % % BEGIN RECEIVE ORGTBL multicol > & a & b & c \\ > \midrule > 1 & & \multicolumn{2}{c}{3} \\ > & 2 & \multicolumn{2}{c}{4} \\ > % END RECEIVE ORGTBL multicol > >> The reason being that I would like to use \multicolumn often in the >> middle of an orgtbl. My workarounds with manually inserting the LaTeX >> macro are clumsy. >> >> I understood that users should write their own conversion functions. If >> I was going to try my fresh elisp fu, I wanted to ask here whether there >> exists a generic orgtbl syntax to implement the above intercell >> modification. I read the doc for version 7.5 but maybe there are also >> new methods in the dev version which I freshly use. >> >> Kind Regards, >> Michael Bach