Set default tabular alignment

#1

Is there a way to configure default tabular alignment. I would like every time I insert a new tabular environment it to be top aligned and the cells to be left aligned. Currently I have muscle memory for the shortcuts to set this up but doing it for every cell is cumbersome.

Thanks!

#2

I’ll try and figure it out, but in the meantime, you mean “doing it for every table”, right?

#3

Please take a look at the mailing list thread https://lists.texmacs.org/wws/arc/texmacs-users/2022-05/msg00036.html (started the day before yesterday). Maybe that is already enough for you.

Otherwise—the table menus are defined under progs/table/table-menu, but I do not know how the make function, which the menu item executes, works, and I am not able to learn it quickly enough to help you with that today.

#4

Thank you for the tip, @pireddag!

I solved my problem by following your instructions and writing the following to my my-init-texmacs.scm:

(delayed (lazy-keyboard-force) 
 (kbd-map (:mode in-math?)
   ("math t" (make 'tabular*)
	  (table-set-valign "T")
	  (with old-mode (get-cell-mode)
		(set-cell-mode "table")
		(cell-set-halign "L")
		(set-cell-mode old-mode)))
))

Your solution from the post unfortunately had some shortcomings: the cursor was positioned wrong and if an expression was highlighted it got deleted; with the code above, the highlighted math gets put inside the cell of the table.

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