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From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Number formatting in tables for LaTeX export
Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 09:03:33 +0200
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To: Michael Gauland <mikelygee@amuri.net>
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Hello,

Michael Gauland <mikelygee@amuri.net> writes:

> I have a table representing a memory map, something like this:
>
>     | Start | End  | Purpose                        |
>     |-------+------+--------------------------------|
>     |  0000 | 1E08 | Bootloader                     |
>     |  1E09 | 1FFF | Unused (Bootloader expansion)  |
>     |  2000 | 3F39 | Application                    |
>
> When I export to LaTeX, '1E08' and '1E09' are interpreted as decimal
> exponent numbers, and are exported as '1(08)' and '1(09)'.
>
> The only way I've found to prevent this is to include the line:
>
>     #+ATTR_LaTeX: :mode verbatim
>
> which produces a rather ugly fixed-font table.
>
> Is there an existing solution to this? If not, any ideas for
> addressing it?

You may want to change `org-table-number-regexp' (global) or modify, at
least locally, through BIND keyword,
`org-latex-table-scientific-notation'.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou