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From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
To: Rick Frankel <rick@rickster.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Aric <aorchid@mac.com>
Subject: Re: Org Table Export to Markdown Table Question
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 18:14:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a9f59iwv.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6fa64ecaba9463d42823229230e4e50e@mail.rickster.com> (Rick Frankel's message of "Thu, 09 Jan 2014 11:58:37 -0500")

Hello,

Rick Frankel <rick@rickster.com> writes:

> 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.

BTW, Markdown export back-end turns tables into raw HTML code, which,
AFAIK, is allowed in Markdown.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-09 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-08 20:41 Org Table Export to Markdown Table Question Aric
2014-01-09  7:44 ` vilibald
2014-01-09 16:58 ` Rick Frankel
2014-01-09 17:14   ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2014-01-09 20:30   ` Aric Gregson
2014-01-09 23:57     ` Alan L Tyree
2014-01-10 22:26       ` Aric
2014-01-11  0:16         ` Alan L Tyree

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