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ASCII Tables with row and colspans
From: |
Ag Ibragimov |
Subject: |
ASCII Tables with row and colspans |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Oct 2023 16:05:08 -0500 |
I've driven myself into a self-imposed headache. I need to render an HTML table
(Elisp representation of it, result of libxml-parse) in ASCII. Org-mode tables
are notorious for their lack of support for spanned columns or rows. Yay,
table.el can do it, it's nice for inserting a table and modifying the content
interactively. However, it's not really suitable for filling out a table
programmatically. There's a `table-insert-sequence` command in table.el that
allows you to insert text into a selected cell while automatically adjusting
the table, but it's agonizingly slow to call as a function. Sadly, table.el
doesn't seem to have a function that could "adjust the table" the way how
`org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c` does in org-mode (which, again, doesn't support spans).
Like if I have something like this (that's a parsed example from the
Wiktionary):
'(table
((style . "background-color:#F0F0F0;width:100%")
(class . "inflection-table"))
(tbody
nil
(tr
nil
(th ((colspan . "2") (style . "background-color:#e2e4c0;")) "infinitive")
" "
(td ((colspan . "6") (style . "text-align:center;")) "conocer"))
(tr
nil (th ((colspan . "2") (style . "background-color:#e2e4c0;"))
"gerundive") " "
(td
((colspan . "6") (style . "text-align:center;"))
(span
((class . "Latn") (lang . "ast"))
(a ((href . "/wiki/conociendo#Asturian")
(title . "conociendo"))
"conociendo")) " "))
(tr...)
(tr...)
(tr...)
(tr...)))
What's fast and easy way to render it in ASCII?
- ASCII Tables with row and colspans,
Ag Ibragimov <=