Re: [emacs-humanities] Thematic analysis in Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 20:53:21 +0000
> From: Jean-Christophe Helary via Emacs-humanities <emacs-humanities@gnu.org>
> 
> I’m (at last) entering a PhD course this month and have started working on 
> data from my MA.
> 
> I have about 30 hours of interviews (14 people, in Japanese) and I’m 
> wondering what’s the best way to do thematic analysis in Emacs.
> 
> I’ve first started with a spreadsheet in LibreOffice and stopped when I saw 
> how cumbersome the thing was going to become.
> I then moved to tables in Emacs and the difficulty of having word-wrapping in 
> cells stopped me after 5 minutes of searching on the web.
> 
> I’m left with using an org file, with titles, tags, etc. But I’m wondering if 
> it’s the best approach.

Please describe the problems you had with table.el.  AFAICT,
table-fixed-width-mode lets you have fixed-width columns with text
wrapping, so I'm not sure I understand the difficulties.