Re: [emacs-humanities] Thematic analysis in Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 13:41:08 +0000
> From: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traductaire-libre.org>
> Cc: emacs-humanities@gnu.org
> 
> 
> 
> > 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 ?

It's a different feature, so I thought maybe it fits better what you
need.  Just a thought.