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Re: [AUCTeX] Some hints for editing tables
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Marcin Borkowski |
Subject: |
Re: [AUCTeX] Some hints for editing tables |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:27:28 +0100 |
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On 2015-11-19, at 09:36, jfbu <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Mosè and Joost,
>
> Le 18 nov. 2015 à 23:52, Mosè Giordano <address@hidden> a écrit :
>
>> Hi Joost,
>>
>> 2015-11-17 13:18 GMT+01:00 Joost Kremers <address@hidden>:
>>> If you do decide to take on the challenge, here's a few things to take
>>> into consideration:
>>
>> Well, it was more a dream than a declaration of action, I'm not going
>> to work on that ;-) org has its own simple syntax for tables and it
>> works very well, but editing real LaTeX tables requires much more
>> attention, for example they can be split over lines (I don't think
>> it's the case for org).
>
> I am going off-topic here, but it could be possible to address this
> issue at the TeX level: I mean by this define a LaTeX environment for
> tables which would use org-syntax. Thus you could have the goodies
> you mention on the Emacs editing side, and the LaTeX compilation would
> proceed directly.
>
> For example TeX allows at the inner core any choice of character for
> tabulation in alignments, thus we could use | rather than &. Of course
> higher level structures will perhaps really need a &, but then they
> can be rewritten to work with |. (use of | as tabulation means one
> has to address how to use it as standard character elsewhere)
>
> (for example the table in the screenshot provided by Joost can definitely
> be analyzed at TeX macro level, if the goal is to produce simple centered
> columns; I don't know how org says to use left or right aligned columns)
>
> I mention this as a theoretical possibility !
You mean, something like this?
http://ctan.org/pkg/tap
> (and now I am going to go and check org documentation for
> its table syntax and realize I posted too hastily this...)
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
- [AUCTeX] Some hints for editing tables, Mosè Giordano, 2015/11/16
- Re: [AUCTeX] Some hints for editing tables, Joost Kremers, 2015/11/16
- Re: [AUCTeX] Some hints for editing tables, Mosè Giordano, 2015/11/16
- Re: [AUCTeX] Some hints for editing tables, Joost Kremers, 2015/11/17
- Re: [AUCTeX] Some hints for editing tables, Mosè Giordano, 2015/11/18
- Re: [AUCTeX] Some hints for editing tables, jfbu, 2015/11/19
- Re: [AUCTeX] Some hints for editing tables,
Marcin Borkowski <=
- Re: [AUCTeX] Some hints for editing tables, jfbu, 2015/11/19
- Re: [AUCTeX] Some hints for editing tables, Marcin Borkowski, 2015/11/19
- Re: [AUCTeX] Some hints for editing tables, jfbu, 2015/11/19
- Re: [AUCTeX] Some hints for editing tables, jfbu, 2015/11/19
- Re: [AUCTeX] Some hints for editing tables, Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo, 2015/11/19
- Re: [AUCTeX] Some hints for editing tables, jfbu, 2015/11/19
- Re: [AUCTeX] Some hints for editing tables, Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo, 2015/11/17