Gerhard <gsq...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi, > > I was happy to find out about the possibility to convert a table into > something else, but I struggle with obtaining a particular result. I > have addresses in a table and want them to be formatted for printing. > This is where I am so far. > > #+ORGTBL: SEND sofar orgtbl-to-generic :lfmt "%s"
Reading the documentation, this should be #+ORGTBL: SEND sofar orgtbl-to-generic :lfmt "%s %s\n%s\n%s %s\n" to have your expected formatting. But it seem there is a bug in orgtbl that make this to fail. This very simple patch seem to do the trick solve this.
>From 248ee115ffaa86e7284a111bffc750174997faf2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?R=C3=A9mi=20Vanicat?= <vani...@debian.org> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:22:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Correctly format orgtbl line when there is a :lfmt argument. orgtbl-apply-fmt need its arguments not in a line but as direct argument, we need to call apply --- lisp/org-table.el | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lisp/org-table.el b/lisp/org-table.el index 8da57b2..dec16c0 100644 --- a/lisp/org-table.el +++ b/lisp/org-table.el @@ -4595,7 +4595,7 @@ First element has index 0, or I0 if given." f))) line))) (push (if *orgtbl-lfmt* - (orgtbl-apply-fmt *orgtbl-lfmt* line) + (apply #'orgtbl-apply-fmt *orgtbl-lfmt* line) (concat (orgtbl-eval-str *orgtbl-lstart*) (mapconcat 'identity line *orgtbl-sep*) (orgtbl-eval-str *orgtbl-lend*))) -- 1.7.10.4
-- Rémi Vanicat