Hi Eric, I can only agree with what has already been said, namely that this is a very nice solution which indeed is much more generic and does not require fiddling with the core of the distribution.
Thanks for this, this even closes, I think, the older thread or re-opens it to further discussion ;) Cheers, Erik On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Eric Schulte <schulte.e...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Sébastien, > > Sébastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgw...@spammotel.com> writes: > >> Hi Eric, >> >> Carsten Dominik wrote: >>> On Jun 28, 2010, at 7:09 AM, Eric Schulte wrote: >>> >>>> One way to deal with this without adding even more complexity to the core >>>> of org-mode could be through the use of "Library of Babel" functions. >>>> >>>> The attached org-mode file provides a function for exporting to the >>>> longtable environment with some example usage. If this looks generally >>>> useful it (and maybe similar functions) could be added to the library of >>>> babel distributed w/Org-mode. >>>> >>>> What do you think? -- Eric >>> >>> This looks like a great solution to me. >> >> It does look great to me as well. Just a request on the wish-list: could the >> table environment be made a parameter (so that we can choose between tabular, >> tabular*, etc.)? >> > > Sure, my thinking was that it may be more natural to use the environment > type as the function name (allowing more concise function calls). Also, > that way if there are some arguments that only make sense for particular > environment (I'm not sure that there are) then it would be easy to > customize the functions on a per-environment bases. But if these > environments are all pretty similar > - tabular* > - booktabs > - longtable > - tablex > - array > then I guess one single function is the way to go. > > I'll add this to the library-of-babel.org in > contrib/babel/library-of-babel.org and please feel free to play around > with the function definition. This file lives in the contrib directory > to encourage user participation -- in fact maybe the > library-of-babel.org (or a copy) should move to Worg. > > Thanks -- Eric > >> >> Best regards, >> Seb > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode > _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
