From: Michel Schinz <michel@schi.nz>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: including the | character in a table
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 12:21:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1532514079.1723507.1452263448.11595CD6@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2a7qfwtyz.fsf@charm.irisa.fr>
Hello,
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018, at 11:22, Alan Schmitt wrote:
> I'm writing a cheat sheet for a programming language, and I'm having
> trouble with operators that use |. For instance:
>
> | match expr with | pattern matching |
> | | pattern -> expr | action |
>
> How can I escape the |? I tried putting a \ before but it does not work.
I've used macros in the past for such a case. Quite heavyweight, but I didn't find anything better. Here is an example (which you could augment if you wanted to export to LaTeX too):
#+MACRO: I @@html:|@@
| match expr with | pattern matching |
| {{{I}}}pattern -> expr | action |
Michel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-25 10:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-25 9:22 including the | character in a table Alan Schmitt
2018-07-25 10:21 ` Michel Schinz [this message]
2018-07-25 11:43 ` Kevin Foley
2018-07-25 12:16 ` Alan Schmitt
2018-07-25 12:19 ` Kevin Foley
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