Re: [emacs-humanities] Thematic analysis in Emacs

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On Oct 20, 2024, at 22:17, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 12:53:57 +0000
>> From: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traductaire-libre.org>
>> Cc: emacs-humanities@gnu.org
>> 
>>> On Oct 20, 2024, at 13:53, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 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.
>> 
>> I created a table in org mode.
> 
> Did you try just table.el?  Like "M-x table-insert RET"?

I created a table by adding | characters along the way.

I was in an org file, why would I use M-x table-insert ?

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