Re: [Orgmode] spreadsheet: column width behavior(s)

2010-03-28 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Mar 27, 2010, at 7:05 PM, Samuel Wales wrote: Hi Michael, Org tables already use up horizontal space with the | syntax. Some people use large fonts or small displays. Whatever solution is chosen, making it easy to make tables narrow will be important. I think the new implementation (<>

Re: [Orgmode] spreadsheet: column width behavior(s)

2010-03-27 Thread Samuel Wales
Hi Michael, Org tables already use up horizontal space with the | syntax. Some people use large fonts or small displays. Whatever solution is chosen, making it easy to make tables narrow will be important. Samuel On 2010-03-25, Michael Brand wrote: > Hi Carsten, hi all > > Are there reasons t

Re: [Orgmode] spreadsheet: column width behavior(s)

2010-03-27 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Mar 27, 2010, at 6:15 PM, Michael Brand wrote: Yes, thinking more about it, I do agree that a fixed width makes a lot of sense as the application of . It does now work like this. Thank you for changing. And if someone wants `maximum width' I hope that it will be implemented with the s

Re: [Orgmode] spreadsheet: column width behavior(s)

2010-03-27 Thread Michael Brand
Yes, thinking more about it, I do agree that a fixed width makes a lot of sense as the application of . It does now work like this. Thank you for changing. And if someone wants `maximum width' I hope that it will be implemented with the syntax <..N> as a _variant_ _additional_ to the existin

Re: [Orgmode] spreadsheet: column width behavior(s)

2010-03-27 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Mar 27, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Michael Brand wrote: Are there reasons to only narrow but not to widen columns? I think this is really the only thing that makes sense. Why would you want it any wider, given the limited amount of screen real estate we have here? I don't think it would be difficu

Re: [Orgmode] spreadsheet: column width behavior(s)

2010-03-27 Thread Michael Brand
Are there reasons to only narrow but not to widen columns? I think this is really the only thing that makes sense. Why would you want it any wider, given the limited amount of screen real estate we have here? I don't think it would be difficult to make it behave the way you request, but I don'

Re: [Orgmode] spreadsheet: column width behavior(s)

2010-03-26 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Mar 25, 2010, at 8:53 PM, Michael Brand wrote: Hi Carsten, hi all Are there reasons to only narrow but not to widen columns? I think this is really the only thing that makes sense. Why would you want it any wider, given the limited amount of screen real estate we have here? I don't thin

[Orgmode] spreadsheet: column width behavior(s)

2010-03-25 Thread Michael Brand
Hi Carsten, hi all Are there reasons to only narrow but not to widen columns? I would like the behavior `fixed width' like | year | boss | facility management assistant | | | <30> | <30> | |--+