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LaTeX tables drive me crazy. There are tools to help, but for me, it's the least pleasant aspect of using it. Still beats Word masochism, however.

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The only thing I like about word is it's actually quite a good table composition tool. Just so long as you ignore the defaults that is.

Org-mode has very good support for plain text tables -- which can be converted into multiple formats.

Org-mode tables are pretty cool, bordering on being a spreadsheet... It's worth watching a demo, even if you never use it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTJVLJd_gz0

I've had a go at org mode being a die hard user, but never got past the original hump. Maybe I need something that better reflects my workflow, maybe disorg-mode.

Agreed, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to put tables with first-row headings and ones with first-column headings in the same file. Any ideas?

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