I was just asking about this. I'm not sure I figured out the best way, but it seems to work for me. I am exporting my tables to LaTeX primarily so I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for or not...
Here's the recent series of messages: http://osdir.com/ml/emacs-orgmode-gnu/2010-07/msg00068.html The typical LaTeX table alignment is something like l|l|l for text which means left aligned text with vertical dividers. Instead of l you can use p{width} to specify a fixed column width which will wrap. In org, put this in your file and export it to LaTeX PDF #+ATTR_LaTeX: align= |l|l| |row 1|test of some really really long text because I want to see if it will wrap; what in the world will happen to it?| |row 2|test of some not so long test| #+ATTR_LaTeX: align= |l|p{10cm}| |row 1|test of some really really long text because I want to see if it will wrap; what in the world will happen to it?| |row 2|test of some not so long test| You can play with the 10cm value to figure out what you want to do. I essentially use trial and error. I export, check the result, and leave every 'fine' column as the l (left) alignment and then target ones with longer text to prevent them from going off the page. If you were looking for a more 'automatic' or 'intelligent' method, I'm not sure that it exists and not sure anyone could agree on the rules it should follow anyway (should it wrap a particular column? Just the longest one? Just the right-most one?). Does this help? John On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 6:25 PM, David Rogoff <da...@therogoffs.com> wrote: > I'm still learning org mode and have a question about table mode. Is there > a way to wrap text in a cell? I search the docs I could find and the > closest thing was putting <N> in a cell which forced that column to be N > characters wide. That sort-or works, but isn't great. Am I missing > something, or can org-mode not do this? > > Thanks, > > David > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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