Re: [O] Multicolumn

[Neuwirth Erich]

My problem is that the tables are produce by R code snippets.
The code snippets produce plain org tables, bracketed by attributes identifying 
the text as ORG code.



#+RESULTS:
#+BEGIN_ORG
| Jahr | Region | m   | w   | pWert | m.se  | w.se  |
|------+--------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-------|
| 2000 | Sonst  | 508 | 507 | 0.85  | 4.91  | 4.93  |
#+END_ORG


I am able to insert additional lines before and after the text produce by the R 
commands with the following technique (in R):


print(as.table(NULL),quote=FALSE,type="org")
cat("|-------|\n")
print(res,type="org")
cat("|-------|\n")


So I could write a line with my multicol headers.
But for that to work, org mode would have to honor multicol indicators in the 
text.





On Aug 29, 2012, at 2:28 AM, "Christopher J. White" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Erich,
> 
> I have a hack for multicolumn support that may help... It's not great, but 
> serves my purpose.
> 
> I implemented a TWiki mode that uses orgtbl-minor-mode.  TWiki pages support 
> multicolumn cells by adding vertical bars with no separators:
> 
> Display:
> 
> |  Multicol     |
> |  C1   |   C2  |
> 
> TWiki format:
> | Multicol ||
> | C1 | C2 |
> 
> Notice the double vertical bars after Multicol.  The number of vertical bars 
> on every row must be the same.  You can join as many cells as you want that 
> way.  I basically wanted to be able to still use orgtbl-minor-mode to edit 
> such tables.  So I hacked my twiki-import/export code to convert "||" to "| 
> << |" and vice-versa.
> 
> So the orgtbl version of the above looks like this in the buffer:
> 
> | Multicol | << |
> | C1       | C2 |
> 
> The down side is that the text "Multicol" will expand the display size of C1, 
> so if it gets long, the table grows:
> 
> | This is a long multicol cell | << |
> | C1                           | C2 |
> 
> So it gets me what I want, which is orgtbl editing, and import/export support 
> to twiki format.  Seems a similar technique could be backed in to any org 
> export engine.
> 
> ...cj
> 
> On 8/28/12 5:10 PM, Neuwirth Erich wrote:
>> After some googling it seems that multicolumn support is not yet implemented 
>> in org tables.
>> I would need multicolumn headers quite urgently,
>> but I have not yet found a way to make this possible.
>> 
>> I think that tables with headers like this:
>> 
>> |               |    mean       |         s.e.        |
>> | gender | varA | varB |  varA | varB |
>> 
>> are quite common, so I really want to put this feature on the wish list.
>> I am not able to implement this myself.
>> 
>> Erich
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
>