From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rick Frankel Subject: Re: Org Table Export to Markdown Table Question Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 11:58:37 -0500 Message-ID: <6fa64ecaba9463d42823229230e4e50e@mail.rickster.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56970) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1IwN-00022P-MY for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 11:58:49 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1IwH-0004SI-LB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 11:58:43 -0500 Received: from mail.rickster.com ([204.62.15.78]:55026) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1IwH-0004S9-H5 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 11:58:37 -0500 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Aric Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On 2014-01-08 15:41, Aric wrote: > I am trying to use org-mode now with R code in it to write manuscripts. > That > does unfortunately mean that it must be eventually exported to some doc > format. I have been able to export to markdown and everything looks > good in > markdown (even previewed on github) with the exception of latex code > which is > not converted. However, using pandoc to convert the markdown to docx, > the > tables are not converted properly (all a single column). I'm not sure why you are using markdown as an intermediate file format. Org will export to latex, pdf (via latex) and openoffice odt (which can be exported from open/libre office to doc/docx.). Both the above exporters are much more mature that the markdown exporter. rick