Hi, Nicolas Goaziou <m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
> Rasmus <ras...@gmx.us> writes: > >> Nicolas Goaziou <m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes: >> >>> IMO, it is worth pondering if we should drop the defective support for >>> table.el tables in Org. >> >> Fine with me. Last I checked I was not able to get the output of >> tabel.el tables to be satisfying (e.g. I think I gave up on having them >> follow booktabs when exporting to LaTeX). >> >> What are the advances of table.el? Multicolumns and multiline row? > > Basically, yes. So multiline rows doesn't matter. We can collapse columns to not take up too much horizontal space in buffers via <NUM>. Long lines work out of the box in ox-html and can easily be had via e.g. p-columns in ox-latex. No idea about ox-ascii or ox-odt. Multicolumns would be very nice to have in Org-tables. I'm not at all how feasible this is, though. . . Thus, the only feature we'd lose by dropping tabel.el is multicolumns. > Note that dropping support for table.el tables in Org doesn't mean it is > impossible to add them in an Org buffer: these tables are pretty much > major mode agnostic. Sure. Same with org-table... > However, M-q will fill them, C-c ' will not edit them and Makes sense. > export will have to be done by hand, using features explained in > "table.el" comments. Meh, they don't follow org-export-· and org-BACKEND-· anyway (I checked this a while ago, maybe things changed). . . If the previous statement is correct, I don't know if Org really supports exporting them. . . Anyway, that's just my €0.02. —Rasmus -- If you can mix business and politics wonderful things can happen!