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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: Vertical bars in org file break export to ics
Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 15:02:51 +0200
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To: Thomas Plass <thunk2@arcor.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, michael <m.schoenwaelder@posteo.de>

Hello,

thunk2@arcor.de (Thomas Plass) writes:

> michael wrote at 08:57 on May 30, 2019:
> : for the following *.org file running org-icalendar-export-to-ics will fail
> : with "Args out of range: [nil nil], 2".
> : 
> : * This is a test
> :   <2020-01-01 Mi>
> : 
> : | | |
> : | | | | |
>
> Org recognizes the last two lines as a genuine Org table (with two
> rows), not as a collection of vertical bars having a completely
> different meaning.
>
> Making the export more robust by gracefully handling unequal
> numbers of columns won't help you as I guess you wish to have the
> vertical bars exported verbatim (which Org won't do).

You're right.

Meanwhile, I made export more robust in this case.

> Your best bet is probably to choose an unreserved character for use in
> the graphics, possibly just before exporting.  Unicode code point
> 0xFFE4 FULLWIDTH BROKEN BAR looks similar.

Or use ": ", i.e., fixed-width area, or \vert as the first bar.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou