Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

> On 10/11/2021 23:16, Stewart Thomas wrote:
>> 
>> A table in which a first column begins with square brackets is not
>> compiling. The square bracket is interpreted by latex as an argument
>> to the preceding line break.
>
> Confirmed
>
> To fix the bug newline (in tables and paragraphs) should be exported as 
> "\\\relax" or "\\{}". I do not suggest curly brackets in the beginning 
> of line to avoid issues with spurious spaces. Percent character 
> (comment) at the end of line should be considered for a fix since it is 
> usually used in the opposite way: to suppress newline character and 
> spaces at the beginning of next source line.

I am attaching a tentative patch to fix this.
However, I am not sure if I replaced \\ with \\\relax in the right
places.

Daniel, can you please check?