> I would like to submit 2 more patches - one to the manual and other to
> org-exp.el.

I am attaching the promised patch to org-exp.el. Can someone review and
commit this change? 

Please note that I have withheld the changes to org-odt & co which make
use of this change.

ps: The patch to org.texi will follow soon - maybe in a day or two.