On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 5:21 PM Ruy Exel <ruye...@gmail.com> wrote: > The "Column width and alignment" feature of org-mode ( > http://orgmode.org/manual/Column-width-and-alignment.html) is not working > in the latest GIT version (as of Fri Dec 8 20:06:59 BRST 2017). > > I have just tested it in the table > > |---+------------------------------| > | | <6> | > | 1 | one | > | 2 | two | > | 3 | This is a long chunk of text | > | 4 | four | > |---+------------------------------| > > which is actually the example given in the manual. It fails under the > latest version (column width is unchanged upon alignment) >
I am assuming you are using the master/development version of Org from git? If so, see this in ORG-NEWS: *** =align= STARTUP value no longer narrow table columns Columns narrowing (or shrinking) is now dynamic. See [[*Dynamically narrow table columns]] for details. In particular, it is decoupled from aligning. If you need to automatically shrink columns upon opening an Org document, use =shrink= value instead, or in addition to align: #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE ,#+STARTUP: align shrink #+END_EXAMPLE > but it works OK in an older version (Org version 7.9.3f - GNU Emacs 24.3). > Wow! That's a very old version! As you are making this big version upgrade, it would be worthwhile to go through the whole of http://orgmode.org/cgit.cgi/org-mode.git/tree/etc/ORG-NEWS and make a note of new features and few breaking changes since that version. -- Kaushal Modi
