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From: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Tables with multicolumn in LaTeX export
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:14:45 +0200
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Hi Eric,

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 04:13:40PM +0100, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> On Tuesday, 25 Aug 2015 at 16:38, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> >
> > I was wondering if it is possible to have multicolumn when exporting
> > tables to LaTeX.  Something like the following:
> >
> > | | | ∈ (5300,5800) | | ∈ (5320,5420) | <- row with multicolumn

 [...]

> A kludge but you can use @@latex:...@@ in the table headings to achieve
> what you want.  Not pretty, mind you, and to avoid multiple \cr being
> created for the extra rows on the first line, this will only work if the
> last column is part of a multicolumn.
> 
> #+begin_src org
>   ,* table with multiple column spanning
>   |                | @@latex:\multicolumn{2}{c}{@@\in (5300,5800)@@latex:}@@ | @@latex:\multicolumn{2}{c}{@@ \in (5320,5420) @@latex:} \\%@@ |        |        |

This is very clever and works nicely :).  Thank you!

-- 
Suvayu

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