Tim Cross <theophil...@gmail.com> writes: > From watching these discussions in the past, I think the big stumbling > block is how easily multi-row columns can be added and maintained in the > various export formats. Some are easy, like HTML, but others are less > so. In particular, I know from my many years working with Latex, > multi-row columns are not straight-forward. There are lots of edge cases > to deal with and it is hard to get a consistent result programatically. > > Proposals like this one can seem simple and straight-forward on the > surface. However, implementation is another matter. All of the exporters > will need to be updated to handle this new syntax and it will probably > take a fair bit of work to handle it correctly in just plain org files > (formatting, highlighting etc).
I don't know if anyone has come up with this other possibility: if the problem is (usually) the inconvenience of editing cells with a lot of text within an Org document (since when exporting to LaTeX for example, it makes no difference whether the cell content is on a single line, if the tabularx package is used properly), then the possibility of editing a cell in a dedicated buffer would be very practical here. A kind of `org-edit-special' for cells... That could be combined with `org-table-toggle-column-width'. Best regards, Juan Manuel
