Hi Sebastian, > Andras Major wrote: >> I'm really intrigued by org-mode's table and spreadsheet functionality >> and would like to use it for those cases where I found excel and >> gnumeric impractically cumbersome. >> >> What I want are two slightly diffent things: >> >> - Make tables that have cells with individual background colours when >> exported as HTML or PDF. >> >> - Make tables that have cells with background colours and typeface >> details (bold, italic, etc.) based on contents of either the cells >> themselves or other cells in the table. (Example: mark all negative >> numerical values of a table with a red background.) >> >> Furthermore, the colouring should be portable, i.e. independent of the >> settings in .emacs. > > I add wishes on the above list. Maybe someone will be able to implement > them, > if they seem to make sense... So, here's my idea: having some automagic > style > (background) applied on the cells to distinguish: > > - the input cells (the ones you cannot delete... without troubles): they > don't > have any formula associated with them > > - the final result cells: the ones with computed results > > - the other ones, whose content is computed, but serves as input to other > cells. > > Would these be in different colors, I think it would make the reading of > tables much more efficient. And, as far as I know, this does not exist yet > in > tools like Excel -- though people can manually apply such color conventions.
I was thinking along slightly different lines. We have a customizable <td> tag in HTML export already, but that customization isn't very flexible. If we could have something like a <td> tag that can be set from values in the table, or by Lisp code, then I think that would solve my problems. It's important, however, that setting the export tag must be local to the Org file so I can set it there instead of the global .emacs. András
