Re: [AUCTeX] Some hints for editing tables

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2015-11-19, at 19:02, jfbu <address@hidden> wrote:

> probably the answer is : "yes and no"
>
> no, as it doesn't seem to have implemented in TeX/LaTeX the
> org syntax for tables: if I am not mistaken tapdoc.pdf seems
> to indicate that rows start with \B! and end with \E!
>
> (at least it is what I see from the code samples given)
>
> yes, as it seems to have a syntax of its own which appears
> to be somewhat akin to the org syntax

Exactly.  It's not really Org-tables in LaTeX, treat it rather as
a proof of concept.

Since Org tables are (syntax-wise) fairly simplistic, in principle it
wouldn't be too difficult to write a (La)TeX package to deal with them
directly.  Of course, there are tricky things, like the spreadsheet
(little hope for implementing that), column groups and width/alignment
cookies.  Those features would probably need two passes - the first one
would gather the information from the cookies, the second one would
typeset the table.  Possible, but probably not worth the effort.

> best
> Jean-François

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University