From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Columns with marking characters are exported to latex (Org 8) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 00:23:47 -0400 Message-ID: <8738crzt4c.fsf@pierrot.dokosmarshall.org> References: <53F25B21.5060308@th-grothe.de> <8761hppj69.fsf@alphaville.bos.redhat.com> <871tsdpimx.fsf@alphaville.bos.redhat.com> <53F27AD2.7020103@th-grothe.de> <87ppfxyue4.fsf@pierrot.dokosmarshall.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46979) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJxRQ-00013n-0F for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 00:24:13 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJxRK-00051Z-ER for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 00:24:07 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:40534) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJxRK-00051N-80 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 00:24:02 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XJxRJ-0007l9-Ki for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 06:24:01 +0200 Received: from pool-173-48-174-104.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([173.48.174.104]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 06:24:01 +0200 Received: from ndokos by pool-173-48-174-104.bstnma.fios.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 06:24:01 +0200 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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Nick Dokos writes: > Thorsten Grothe writes: > >> Hallo Nick, >> >> * Nick Dokos, 19.08.2014 00:13:53: >> >>> Sorry - disregard that. I didn't test with radio tables, I just did a >>> straight export. I'll try radio tables later. >> >> the attached file is a showing the latex code after the export from >> orgtbl -- see the result, I made some small comments on it... > > Yes, not only can I reproduce it, I bisected it and (surprise!) the > bisection fingered commit 79873390edd26a44cefc2050c7af470a7ed8fd07: my > "fix" to your previous complaint: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/88634 > > I'll take another look at org-table-clean-before-export. OK - I have taken a closer look and I think my "fix" was wrong: I'm going to revert it. That will of course restore the previous behaviour where a first column that's empty is deleted on export. There is an argument to be made that that is "correct" behaviour: first, both the original version and Achim's rewrite implement that behaviour, but also the relevant section of the manual (section 3.5.10, Advanced Features) which lists the special first column characters includes among them. That leaves the somewhat counterintuitive case of a completely empty first column which is therefore deemed special and gets stripped. This could be "fixed" as a special case but instead I propose to document that behaviour in the above section, with a suggested workaround: if you really, really want an empty first column, then add a second one. WDYT? -- Nick