Re: [Orgmode] Tables in ASCII export

[Carsten Dominik]

On Feb 19, 2010, at 7:54 PM, Michael Gauland wrote:

> carsten.dominik> this behavior is now the default, controlled by the  
> new user option
> carsten.dominik> `org-export-ascii-table-widen-columns'.
>
> Thanks. That's a start, but what I really want is to have long cells  
> folded, so
> that one table row might become several lines in the ASCII export.  
> For example,
> if my table looks like this in org:
>
>    | / | <10R> | <20>                 |
>    |   |     1 | The quick brown fo=> |
>    |   |     2 | Now is the time for  |
>
>
> I want my ASCII export to look like this:
>
>      1   The quick brown fox
>          jumped over the lazy
>          dogs.
>      2   Now is the time for
>          all good me to come
>          to the aid of the
>          party.

No, this is not possible.

For multi-line fields, please check out table.el, which makes such  
tables.  And Org does export them correctly.

- Carsten


> I've started looking at org-table-align to get a feel for how org  
> deals with
> tables, but I'm still trying to puzzle out where this folding should  
> be done.
> Any advice on that?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike

- Carsten