From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: How to escape characters in tables Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:57:15 +0000 Message-ID: <87fwr4b3j8.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41762 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PvAu5-0000C1-Jr for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:57:30 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PvAu0-0004Id-Ht for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:57:25 -0500 Received: from vscane-a2.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.42]:64251) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PvAu0-0004IG-Dw for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:57:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Ken Williams's message of "Wed, 2 Mar 2011 09:25:57 -0600") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ken.Williams@thomsonreuters.com Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org writes: > I posted a question on Stack Overflow a few days ago, I'm wondering > whether someone might want to take a look: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5144862/escape-pipe-character-in-org= -mode > > The issue is that I've got tables whose cells contain the '|' > character (it's a table of regular expressions), and I can't seem to > figure out how to escape it so that it doesn't mean a delimiter > between cells. Anyone have advice or a pointer to the docs I can't > seem to find? I guess it all depends on what you want to do with the resulting document. You could always insert a character that looks like the '|' character, such as the unicode "LIGHT VERTICAL BAR" (0x2758) character, '=E2=9D=98', and I'm sure there are others that could be used... org should ignore this character as a table delimiter. --=20 : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1 : using Org-mode version 7.4 (release_7.4.592.gc431) -- Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode