Matt Price <mopto...@gmail.com> writes:
> I have to write a number of text-heavy documents which need to be delivered > as tables with wrapped paragraphs in most cells. Working directly in > table format is pretty arduous and uncomfortable. Has anyone ever written a > function to accept a list or subtree as input and process it into a table? > > If anyone has done something similar, I'd love some tips! No, have not done that. What formats do you need to export the documents in? I ask because if all you need to produce is Latex derived documents (i.e. PDF, ps etc) and you do plan to write a function yourself to do this, I would work backwards. Latex tables are not very good for your use case, but Latex can support what you want to do. Most of the Latex table packages are not terribly good at formatting tables containing paragraphs of data. They will typically require lots of hand tweaking to get the formatting looking right. Getting the right latex package to support what you need to do will make the function you will need to write a lot easier. Therefore, I would start with a search of the latex package archives to find the right package and then write an elisp function that generates a latex block which formats your subtree using that package. You probably want something which will format a table with minipage or similar environments in the cells. -- Tim Cross
