> In this case, it's not specific to any exporter. org-export--skip-p returns
> true for column alignment rows with the following code:
>
>     (table-cell
>      (and (org-export-table-has-special-column-p
>   (org-export-get-parent-table datum))
>  (org-export-first-sibling-p datum options)))

This part of the code is not for alignment rows, it is for special
columns.

> So these rows will be in the ignore-list for all exporters.

This is no longer true on main.

> ... And that's reasonable - when ignore-list is being used for
> deciding what to export. The problem, as I see it, is that
> org-export-table-row-number does not consider this when determining
> the "address" of a cell.

?? `org-export-table-row-number' considers the ignore list because
`org-element-map' considers it.

> So, there is no bug here.
>>
>
> I  disagree :) and suggest the following change to org-export-row-number
> (line 5390):
>
>     info))
>
> should become:
>
>   (org-plist-delete info 'ignore-list)))
>
> which will make it consistent with its docstring and with user-facing
> addresses.

The docstring should be fixed, not the function behaviour.

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