Re: Wider margins on text, but no margins on tables?

[Ihor Radchenko]

William Denton <wtd@pobox.com> writes:

> But for tables it can be a problem because sometimes I have a table that i 
> want 
> as wide as possible.  Is there a way to have tables fit inside the 
> margin-width 
> settings until they get too wide, then expand out?  That way a small table 
> isn't 
> flush left, but a big one is.

No easy way, AFAIK. You may probably hook into
`window-size-change-functions' to calculate margins dynamically. See
`olivetti-mode' for an example how to use this hook.

> Or perhaps there is a way to set Org tables to have margin-widths of 0, so it 
> would be:  narrowed paragraph, narrowed paragraph, table flush left, narrowed 
> paragraph.

AFAIK, window margins are set for the whole window. They are fixed. The
best you can do it creating artificial margins by setting paragraph
line-prefix/wrap-prefix property + 
https://codeberg.org/joostkremers/visual-fill-column

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