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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Subject: Re: Selective export of table columns
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Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I recently was in a situation where I had tables like these,
> 
> 
> |    | smear param | \chi^2/DoF  | \chi^2/DoF |
> | Sl |  caloE perp | perp before | perp after |
> |----+-------------+-------------+------------|
> |  3 |       3.008 | 8/13        | 8.3/13     |
> |  2 |       3.508 | 8/13        | 8.2/13     |
> |  0 |       4.008 | 8/13        | 8.3/13     |
> |  4 |       4.508 | 8.1/13      | 8.4/13     |
> 
> 
> Now the 1st and 2nd column are something for my reference and I don't
> want to export them to my presentation slides. So is there an option for
> selective export of table columns? If not can someone give any hints how
> I might try to achieve that? I am just learning some lisp, so maybe this
> could be a good practice. :)
> 
> Thanks for any insights.
> 

Perhaps radio tables with :skipcols can help? See section A.5.1 of the
Org manual.

Nick