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From: Bastien <bastien.guerry@wikimedia.fr>
Subject: Re: [BUG]  export of table.el tables
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:16:42 +0100
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To: David Maus <dmaus@ictsoc.de>
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David Maus <dmaus@ictsoc.de> writes:

>> Summary: table.el tables with row and col spans are not getting exported
>> as expected on html export.
>>
>> Looks like the table markers gets recognized as strikethroughs, mdashes
>> and ndashes. This apparrently is getting in the way of proper
>> export.
>>
>> Furthermore I see no rowspans and colspans in the generated html.

As a workaround, one can try to export table.el tables to org-mode
tables before export.

Quick hack:

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(defun org-convert-table-el-all ()
  (interactive)
  (save-excursion
    (goto-char (point-min))
    (while (re-search-forward "^[ \t]*\\+-+.+\\+[ \t]*$" nil t)
      (when (org-at-table.el-p)
	(org-table-create-with-table.el)))))
#+end_src

Hook this to org-export-preprocess-before-selecting-backend-code-hook
and you'll be prompted whether you want to convert tables or not.

Not tested, but you get the idea.

HTH,

-- 
 Bastien