Hi Erich,
I have a hack for multicolumn support that may help... It's not great,
but serves my purpose.
I implemented a TWiki mode that uses orgtbl-minor-mode. TWiki pages
support multicolumn cells by adding vertical bars with no separators:
Display:
| Multicol |
| C1 | C2 |
TWiki format:
| Multicol ||
| C1 | C2 |
Notice the double vertical bars after Multicol. The number of vertical
bars on every row must be the same. You can join as many cells as you
want that way. I basically wanted to be able to still use
orgtbl-minor-mode to edit such tables. So I hacked my
twiki-import/export code to convert "||" to "| << |" and vice-versa.
So the orgtbl version of the above looks like this in the buffer:
| Multicol | << |
| C1 | C2 |
The down side is that the text "Multicol" will expand the display size
of C1, so if it gets long, the table grows:
| This is a long multicol cell | << |
| C1 | C2 |
So it gets me what I want, which is orgtbl editing, and import/export
support to twiki format. Seems a similar technique could be backed in
to any org export engine.
...cj
On 8/28/12 5:10 PM, Neuwirth Erich wrote:
After some googling it seems that multicolumn support is not yet
implemented in org tables.
I would need multicolumn headers quite urgently,
but I have not yet found a way to make this possible.
I think that tables with headers like this:
| | mean | s.e. |
| gender | varA | varB | varA | varB |
are quite common, so I really want to put this feature on the wish list.
I am not able to implement this myself.
Erich
